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A Soaring Eagle: Alfred Marshall 1842-1924

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When I say this is a 'turgid work'; I mean that it moves along at a snail's pace, especially for the first couple of chapters. However, it does move along a little quicker pace as you get into the book.

It is a comprehensive work of the life, the times and the works of the great economist, Alfread Marshall, and the author has certainly created a benchmark against which other biographies of the man will have to ascend. Yet it a book that one can only take in small doses, and surprising for me, it took me many months to complete.

Perhaps a more lively style of writing would have helped; less repetition (in many ways, Marshall was a boring man; his intellectual, but supressed wife seemed more interesting), and a more thorough examination of his works and where they stood in relation to the development of economic thought (if at all!).