Collected Economic Writings
Arthur Pigou(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 20. September 1999
Book
Hardback
4938 pages
978-0-333-77848-7 (ISBN)
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Description
These 14 volumes bring together the works of the important economist A.C. Pigou. The set includes all of Pigou's major works from 1906 to 1952 as well as many of his smaller essays and lectures. Included are many items that are now rare and hard to access for the modern scholar. The collection starts with his acknowledged classic, "Wealth and Welfare", in which he pioneered welfare economics, and which embodied his concerns for justice and the protection of the interests of the poor. This work was vastly expanded over the years into "The Economics of Welfare",. Many of his other popular and influential works such as "Unemployment" and "The Political Economy of War" can be found here.;Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-1959) was a British economist of the two decades before World War II. His writings extended over 50 years and covered a wide range of economic subjects. He is best known for his contributions to the theory of economic welfare. A student under Alfred Marshall at Cambridge and his successor as Professor of Political Economy, he was responsible for communicating Marshallian orthodoxy to the next generation of Cambridge economists.
As a result, he became the main target for the new
As a result, he became the main target for the new
Reviews / Votes
'The complicated analyses which economists endeavour to carry through are not mere gymnastic. They are instruments for the bettering of human life". This is the Pigou of The Economics of Welfare and these words could serve as the epigraph for this wonderful collected reprinting of his major writings in economics. Re-reading will show that his teaching has proved remarkably durable and is of continued relevance today.' - Donald E. Moggridge, Professor of Economics, University of TorontoMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 310 mm
Width: 248 mm
Thickness: 256 mm
Weight
8800 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-77848-7 (9780333778487)
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Persons
ARTHUR CECIL PIGOU (1877-1959) was the leading British economist of the two decades before World War II. His writings extended over 50 years and covered a wide range of economic subjects. He is best known for his contributions to the theory of economic welfare. A student under Alfred Marshall at Cambridge and his successor as Professor of Political Economy, he was responsible for communicating Marshallian orthodoxy to the next generation of Cambridge economists. As a result, he became the main target for the new thinking of Keynes' General Theory (1936), being held up as an example of all that was wrong with classical macroeconomics. Today, his importance in shaping the modern discipline is firmly established and he is universally regarded as a figure of first distinction in the history of economics.
Content
VOLUME 1 Introduction; D. Collard Principles and Methods of Industrial Peace, 1905, 260pp Economic Science in Relation to Practice, 1908, 32pp VOLUME 2 Wealth and Welfare, 1912, 524pp VOLUME 3 Economics of Welfare [1920] 1932 4th ed., 868pp VOLUME 4 Unemployment, 1914, 258pp The Political Economy of War, [1921] 2nd ed., 1940, 176pp VOLUME 5 Essays in Applied Economics, 1923, 205pp VOLUME 6 Industrial Fluctuations, [1927] 2nd ed., 1929, 447pp VOLUME 7 A Study in Public Finance, [1928] 3rd ed., 1947, 303pp VOLUME 8 The Theory of Unemployment, 1933, 344pp VOLUME 9 The Economics of Stationary States, 1935, 337pp VOLUME 10 Employment and Equilibrium, [1941] 2nd ed., 1949, 293pp VOLUME 11 Income: An Introduction to Economics, 1946, 125pp Income Revisited, 1955, 94pp VOLUME 12 Aspects of British Economic History 1918-1925, 1947, 259pp VOLUME 13 Keynes General Theory, 1950, 77pp Alfred Marshall and Current Thought, 1953, 92pp VOLUME 14 Essays in Economics, 1952, 247pp