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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kumekawa, Ian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Pigou, A. C. > (Arthur Cecil), > 1877-1959.
Economists > Great Britain.
Welfare economics.
Economics > History.
Économistes > Grande-Bretagne.
Économie du bien-être.
Économie politique > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
Economics.
Economists.
Wirtschaftstheorie
Wohlfahrtstheorie
Great Britain.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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