
The Marshall Library of Economics is a library of the
University of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
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England
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History
The library is the outgrowth of a Moral Sciences Library begun in 1885 by Professor
Alfred Marshall
Alfred Marshall (26 July 1842 – 13 July 1924) was an English economist, and was one of the most influential economists of his time. His book '' Principles of Economics'' (1890) was the dominant economic textbook in England for many years. I ...
and Professor
Henry Sidgwick
Henry Sidgwick (; 31 May 1838 – 28 August 1900) was an English utilitarian philosopher and economist. He was the Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1883 until his death, and is best known in phil ...
, consisting largely of their own books and housed in the Selwyn Divinity School, opposite St John's College. Since 2012 the library had also held books of the Centre of Development Studies, which had been housed in the Mill Lane Library.
Upon his death in 1924, Professor Marshall bequeathed much of his personal library to Cambridge. In his honour, the expanded collection was named "The Marshall Library of Economics", and moved to larger quarters in the former Balfour Laboratory in Downing Place. In 1935, it took over the former
Squire Law Library, adjoining the
Geological Museum
The Geological Museum (originally the Museum of Economic Geology then the Museum of Practical Geology), started in 1835 as one of the oldest single science museums in the world and now part of the Natural History Museum, London, Natural Hist ...
, and in the early 1960s relocated once again to its present home on the
Sidgwick Site
The Sidgwick Site is one of the largest sites within the University of Cambridge, England.
Overview and history
The Sidgwick Site is located on the western side of Cambridge city centre, near the Backs. The site is north of Sidgwick Avenue ...
. The Marshall Library is housed within the Austin Robinson Building (which is home to the
Faculty of Economics), designed by
Hugh Casson
Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson (23 May 1910 – 15 August 1999) was a British architect. He was also active as an interior designer, as an artist, and as a writer and broadcaster on twentieth-century design. He was the director of architecture for t ...
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Collections
The library covers Economics, Applied Economics, and Development Studies. The collection consists of approximately 75,000 monographs, 25,000 volumes of periodicals and serials, 30 current periodical titles (print).
The historic collection includes about 4,000 rare books, and various archival materials of economists (e.g.
John Neville Keynes
John Neville Keynes ( ; 31 August 1852 – 15 November 1949) was a British economist and father of John Maynard Keynes.
Biography
Born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, Keynes was the child of John Keynes (1805–1878) and his wife Anna Maynard Neville ...
,
Arthur Pigou
Arthur Cecil Pigou (; 18 November 1877 – 7 March 1959) was an English economist. As a teacher and builder of the School of Economics at the University of Cambridge, he trained and influenced many Cambridge economists who went on to take chair ...
,
Austin Robinson
Sir Edward Austin Gossage Robinson, (20 November 1897 – 1 June 1993, Cambridge, England) was a University of Cambridge economist. He was an undergraduate at Christ's College, Cambridge, and a fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
A close ...
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References
External links
Marshall Library of Economics Library Guide
1924 establishments in England
Libraries of the University of Cambridge
Institutions in the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Cambridge
Economics libraries
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