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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Co-Winner of the 2018 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize, History of Economics Society"
"[A] graceful and elegantly structured new intellectual biography."
---Duncan Kelly, Times Literary Supplement"Through his biographical and historical study of Pigou and his work, Kumekawa shows us how the Cambridge professor bound ethics and economics together, and did so in a way that intersected with the social changes, spurred by the rise of the Labor Party, that were taking place around him." * Choice *
"[This book] should be required reading for every economist who has an interest in public economics and public choice economics. . . . It will reaffirm the reader’s faith in the value of intellectual history and of the value of archival historical research. I cannot recommend this book highly enough."
---Peter J. Boettke, Public Choice"[A] fascinating intellectual biography . . . . it is very well researched and the result is a truly enjoyable read."
---Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay, History of Economics IdeasTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction History and Economics 1 1 Beginnings 8 2 Ethics, Politics, and Science 34 3 Bearing Fruit as Well as Light: Pigou's Welfare Economics 61 4 War, Peace, and Disillusionment 83 5 Retreat to the Ivory Tower 111 6 Paradigms Lost 130 7 Another War and a Fresh Start 172 8 To "Really Do a Little Good:" A Redemptive Conclusion 194 Epilogue 208 Notes 213 Bibliography 293 Index 321
