Gerald Shove

{{Short description|British economist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox economist | honorific_prefix = | name = Frank Gerald Shove | honorific_suffix = | school_tradition = | image = Gerald Frank Shove by Lady Ottoline Morrell.jpg | caption = Gerald Shove in 1917. | birth_date = 1887 | birth_place =Ospringe. Kent. England | death_date = 11 August 1947 | death_place =Old Hunstanton, Norfolk, England | spouse = | alma_mater = | institution = King's College, Cambridge | field = | influences = Alfred Marshall | influenced = | awards = | signature =  }}

'''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.

==Biography== Shove was born in Faversham, Kent, the son of Herbert Samuel Shove and his wife Bertha Millen.<ref>[http://auden.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/auden/individual.php?pid=I7661&ged=auden-bicknell.ged&tab=0 Auden Family Ghosts] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720045558/http://auden.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/auden/individual.php?pid=I7661&ged=auden-bicknell.ged&tab=0 |date=20 July 2011 }}</ref> His younger brother was the Olympic rower Ralph Shove.<ref>{{Cite sports-reference |check-wikidata=no |title=Ralph Shove |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sh/ralph-shove-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418040031/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sh/ralph-shove-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |access-date=4 September 2018 }}</ref>

He was educated at Uppingham School<ref>Uppingham School Rolls, 1824–1931, 1883–1960</ref> and King's College, Cambridge,<ref>Register of Admissions to King's College, 1797–1925</ref> 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.<ref>Sybille Bedford, ''Aldous Huxley'', 1973; Michael Holroyd, ''Lytton Strachey'', 1994</ref>

His academic career was spent at King's College, Cambridge, becoming a lecturer in 1923, Fellow in 1926, and Reader in 1945.{{Citation needed|date=April 2018}} 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.<ref name=sardoni>{{cite journal|title=The contribution of Gerald Shove to the development of Cambridge Economics|first=Claudio|last=Sardoni|date=1 July 2004|journal=Review of Political Economy|volume=16|issue=3|pages=361–375|doi=10.1080/0953825042000225643|s2cid=154830546 }}</ref>

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|date=April 2018}} After his death all his economic notes were destroyed.{{r|sardoni}}

==Publications== * "Varying Costs and Marginal Net Products," ''Economic Journal'', 38 (150) [https://www.jstor.org/pss/2223865 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== * Blaug, Mark – ''Who's who in Economics'', 3d ed. (1999)

==References== {{Reflist|30em}}

== External links == * [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp72056 Gerald Frank Shove (1887–1947), Economist: Sitter in 9 portraits] (National Portrait Gallery) * {{Find a Grave|141284741}}

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