Alfred Marshall Men Quotations

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

The modern developments of economic science in relation to rent indicate progress. For we are learning that what is commonly called the rent of land is really a very complex thing made up of many elements, some of which differ more widely from one another than it, as a whole, differs from profits, or than some elements of it differ from wages.