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The British economist Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-1959) was a major voice in economic theory during the first half of the twentieth century. After succeeding his teacher, Alfred Marshall, as the Cambridge Professor of Political Economy at the improbable age of thirty, he reconceptualized economics as a theory of economic welfare and a logic of economic policy analysis. In his time, the muse of history did not smile on this project. The fundamentals of Pigou's thinking were attacked by economists regarded as more innovative—Piero Sraffa, Lionel Robbins, John Maynard Keynes, and Ronald Coase among them. Misconceptions of his work abound. This book attempts to demystify Pigou's life and work by reading his vast oeuvre as he intended it to be understood: as a pragmatic and historicist theory of policy analysis tied to changes in the British polity and economy.
Arthur Cecil Pigou
by Aslanbeigui, Nahid; Oakes, GuyFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2015-09-02
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Author Biography
Nahid Aslanbeigui is Professor of Economics at Monmouth University, US.
Guy Oakes is Professor of Philosophy and Jack T. Kvernland Professor in Leon Hess Business School, Monmouth University, US.
They are co-authors of The Provocative Joan Robinson: The Making of a Cambridge Economist.
Guy Oakes is Professor of Philosophy and Jack T. Kvernland Professor in Leon Hess Business School, Monmouth University, US.
They are co-authors of The Provocative Joan Robinson: The Making of a Cambridge Economist.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Pigou in the Foreground
2. 'The Most Brilliant Young Man I Know'
3. Developing a Framework
4. The Theory of Policy Analysis
5. The Cost Controversies
6. The Robbins Critique
7. Confrontations with Keynes
8. Legacy
Notes
References
Index
Abbreviations
1. Pigou in the Foreground
2. 'The Most Brilliant Young Man I Know'
3. Developing a Framework
4. The Theory of Policy Analysis
5. The Cost Controversies
6. The Robbins Critique
7. Confrontations with Keynes
8. Legacy
Notes
References
Index
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