ABSTRACT
Peter Groenewegen’s magnificent biography of Alfred Marshall provides a veritable mountain of detailed evidence on the development and contributions of a remarkable and complex human being during his long life. Groenewegen has left no stone unturned that might conceal the remotest detail of Marshall’s background and life. Truly a labor of love, no effort has been spared to assure that it is complete and balanced. The result is an 800-page text that ‘everyone who is fascinated (and what economist is not?) by the extraordinary enigma of Marshall’s character and the qualities which made his pupils regard him as incomparably great, must read,’ as Austin Robinson (1948:123) said of Mary Paley Marshall’s posthumously published What I Remember.
