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The Bank Clerk's Son Who Taught the World How Markets Work: The True Story of Alfred Marshall
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The true story of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), the bank clerk's son from Bermondsey who turned down the safe path his father chose, walked through the poorest streets of Victorian England, and spent his life asking one question: does poverty have to exist? To answer it he…
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