Gerald Shove

Shove was born in 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 a 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]

• "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.

• Blaug, Mark – Who's who in Economics, 3d ed. (1999)