Gerald Frank Shove (November 1887 – 11 August 1947) was a British

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

. He was involved in the economics debates in Cambridge in the 1920s and 1930s.

Biography

Shove was born in

Faversham Faversham () is a market town in Kent, England, from Sittingbourne, from London and from Canterbury, next to the Swale, a strip of sea separating mainland Kent from the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary. It is close to the A2 road (Great ...

, Kent, the son of Herbert Samuel Shove and his wife Bertha Millen. His younger brother was the Olympic rower

Ralph Shove Ralph Samuel Shove (31 May 1889 – 2 February 1966) was a British County Court judge and a rower who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. Biography Shove was born at Faversham, Kent, the son of Herbert Samuel Shove and his wife Bertha Mill ...

. He was educated at

Uppingham School Uppingham School is a public school (English fee-charging boarding and day school for pupils 13–18) in Uppingham, Rutland, England, founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson, the Archdeacon of Leicester, who also established Oakham School. ...

and

King's College, Cambridge King's College, formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, is a List of colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college lies beside the River Cam and faces ...

, where he became a member of the

Cambridge Apostles The Cambridge Apostles (also known as the Conversazione Society) is an intellectual society at the University of Cambridge founded in 1820 by George Tomlinson, a Cambridge student who became the first Bishop of Gibraltar. History Student ...

. He married in 1915 Fredegond Maitland, daughter of

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Frederic William Maitland Frederic William Maitland (28 May 1850 – ) was an English historian and jurist who is regarded as the modern father of English legal history. From 1884 until his death in 1906, he was reader in English law, then Downing Professor of the Laws ...

and his wife the playwright

Florence Henrietta Fisher Florence Henrietta Darwin, Lady Darwin (''née'' Fisher, previously Maitland; 31 January 18645 March 1920), was an English playwright. Early life Florence Henrietta Fisher was born in Kensington, London, to Herbert William Fisher and his wife Mar ...

. In

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he was a

conscientious objector A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of conscience or religion. The term has also been extended to objecting to working for the military–indu ...

, like many others in the

Bloomsbury Group The Bloomsbury Group was a group of associated British writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the early 20th century. Among the people involved in the group were Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Vanessa Bell, a ...

, of which he was a member; he worked as a poultry keeper at

Garsington Garsington is a village and civil parish about southeast of Oxford in Oxfordshire. "A History of the County of Oxfordshire" provides a detailed history of the parish from 1082. The 2011 census recorded the parish's population as 1,689. The v ...

, the home of

Lady Ottoline Morrell Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell (née Cavendish-Bentinck; 16 June 1873 – 21 April 1938) was an English Aristocracy (class), aristocrat and society hostess. Her patronage was influential in artistic and intellectual circles, where she befri ...

.Sybille Bedford, ''Aldous Huxley'', 1973; Michael Holroyd, ''Lytton Strachey'', 1994 His academic career was spent at King's College, Cambridge, becoming a lecturer in 1923, Fellow in 1926, and Reader in 1945. He was involved in the economics debates in Cambridge in the 1920 and 30s. His interests included

diminishing returns In economics, diminishing returns means the decrease in marginal (incremental) output of a production process as the amount of a single factor of production is incrementally increased, holding all other factors of production equal ('' ceter ...

imperfect competition In economics, imperfect competition refers to a situation where the characteristics of an economic market do not fulfil all the necessary conditions of a perfectly competitive market. Imperfect competition causes market inefficiencies, resulting in ...

and developing tools to deal with complexity. He died at

Old Hunstanton Old Hunstanton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of and had a population of 47 in 25 households at the 2001 census. The population had risen to 628 at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local ...

and was buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge; his wife Fredegond was also interred in the same burial plot. After his death all his economic notes were destroyed.

Publications

* "Varying Costs and Marginal Net Products," ''Economic Journal'', 38 (150
pp. 258
��266, 1928 * "Increasing Returns and the Representative Firm", ''Economic Journal'', 40 (157), 1930 * "The Place of Marshall's ''Principles'' in the Development of Economic Theory", ''EJ'', 1942. * "Mrs Robinson on Marxian Economics", ''EJ'', 1944.

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Gerald Frank Shove (1887–1947), Economist: Sitter in 9 portraits
(National Portrait Gallery) * 1887 births 1947 deaths People educated at Uppingham School Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Fellows of King's College, Cambridge British economists Historians of economic thought British conscientious objectors People from Faversham {{UK-economist-stub

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