The First Serious Optimist : A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics /

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The First Serious Optimist is an intellectual biography of the British economist A.C. Pigou (1877-1959), a founder of welfare economics and one of the twentieth century's most important and original thinkers. Though long overshadowed by his intellectual rival John Maynard Keynes, Pigou was inst...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kumekawa, Ian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Pigou, A. C. > (Arthur Cecil), > 1877-1959.
Wohlfahrtstheorie
Wirtschaftstheorie
Welfare economics.
Economists.
Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
Économie politique > Histoire.
Économie du bien-être.
Économistes > Grande-Bretagne.
Economics > History.
Economists > Great Britain.
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: history and economics
  • Beginnings
  • Ethics, politics, and science
  • Bearing fruit as well as light: Pigou's welfare economics
  • War, peace, and disillusionment
  • Retreat to the ivory tower
  • Paradigms lost
  • Another war and a fresh start
  • To "really do a little good:"a redemptive conclusion
  • Epilogue.

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