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Book SynopsisThe first volume in the final section of the "Pioneers in Economics" series. This section of the series offers an assessment of significant economists of the 20th century, and this volume deals with Arthur Pigou.
Table of ContentsProfessor Pigou's theory of unemployment, R.F. Harrod; Professor Pigou's theory of unemployment, S.E. Harris; Arthur Cecil Pigou, 1877-1959, Harry G. Johnson; Pigou and the "Pigou effect" - rendezvous with the author, Jacques Melitz; the appointment of Pigou as Marshall's successor, R.H. Coase; the appointment of Pigou as Marshall's successor - comment, A.W. Coats; Marshall on Pigou's wealth and welfare, Krishna Bharadwaj; Pigou, taxation and public goods, A.B. Atkinson and N.H. Stern; the appointment of Pigou as Marshall's successor - the other side of the coin, T.W. Jones; Pigou - an extension of Sidgwickian thought, Margaret G. O'Donnell; Pigou on expectations and the cycle, David A. Collard; were the ordinalists wrong about welfare economics, Robert Cooter and Peter Rappoport; a new look at the ordinalist revolution - comments on Cootes and Rappoport, Pieter Hennipman; reply to Professor Hennipman, Peter Rappoport.
