Summary
Gerald Frank Shove (November 1887 – 11 August 1947) was a British economist. He was involved in the economics debates in Cambridge in the 1920s and 1930s.
Frank Gerald Shove | |
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 Gerald Shove in 1917. | |
| Born | 1887 |
| Died | 11 August 1947 Old Hunstanton, Norfolk, England |
| Academic career | |
| Institution | King's College, Cambridge |
| Influences | Alfred Marshall |
Biography edit
Shove was born at Faversham, Kent, the son of Herbert Samuel Shove and his wife Bertha Millen.[1] His younger brother was the Olympic rower Ralph Shove.[2]
He was educated at Uppingham School[3] and King's College, Cambridge,[4] where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles.
He married in 1915 Fredegond Maitland, daughter of historian Frederic William Maitland and his wife the playwright Florence Henrietta Fisher. In World War I he was a conscientious objector, like many others in the Bloomsbury Group, of which he was a member; he worked as a poultry keeper at Garsington, the home of Lady Ottoline Morrell.[5]
His academic career was spent at King's College, Cambridge, becoming lecturer in 1923, Fellow in 1926, and Reader in 1945.[citation needed] He was involved in the economics debates in Cambridge in the 1920 and 30s. His interests included diminishing returns, imperfect competition and developing tools to deal with complexity.[6]
He died at Old Hunstanton and was buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge; his wife Fredegond was also interred in the same burial plot.[citation needed] After his death all his economic notes were destroyed.[6]
Publications edit
- "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.
Further reading edit
- Blaug, Mark – Who's who in Economics, 3d ed. (1999)
References edit
- ^ Auden Family Ghosts Archived 20 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ralph Shove". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
- ^ Uppingham School Rolls, 1824–1931, 1883–1960
- ^ Register of Admissions to King's College, 1797–1925
- ^ Sybille Bedford, Aldous Huxley, 1973; Michael Holroyd, Lytton Strachey, 1994
- ^ a b Sardoni, Claudio (1 July 2004). "The contribution of Gerald Shove to the development of Cambridge Economics". Review of Political Economy. 16 (3): 361–375. doi:10.1080/0953825042000225643. S2CID 154830546.
External links edit
- Gerald Frank Shove (1887–1947), Economist: Sitter in 9 portraits (National Portrait Gallery)
- Gerald Shove at Find a Grave