Gerald Shove

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Gerald Frank Shove (1887 - 1947) was a British economist.

He was educated at Uppingham School and King's College, Cambridge, where he also worked his entire career. He was an orthodox defender of Alfred Marshall against what he perceived as the theoretical assaults of John Maynard Keynes and Piero Sraffa.

He married Fredegond Maitland, daughter of historian Frederic William Maitland and his wife Florence Henrietta Fisher.

[edit] Most important publications

• "Varying Costs and Marginal Net Profits", 1928, EJ.
• "The Representative Firm and Increasing Returns", 1930, EJ.
• "The Place of Marshall's principles in the Development of Economic Theory", 1942, EJ.