For the last two decades of his life, Arthur Cecil Pigou didn’t get much respect. Once considered Britain’s leading economist, he had come under caustic attack from a colleague at Cambridge-his friend ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
An extra 290,000 pounds a year for lighting and cleaning because smog darkens and pollutes everything: with this cost estimate for the industrial city of Manchester, the English economist Arthur Cecil ...
Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-1959), a British economist, is well known for his contributions to welfare economics. One of the most prolific writers of his time, Pigou wrote over a dozen books and more ...
At the Heavenly Models home for deceased economists, an award is being presented to the resident whose work best explains financial crises, global warming, and other pressing issues of today. The ...
Ian Kumekawa has written a useful guide to the thinking on welfare economics of the British economist Arthur Cecil Pigou, who held the Cambridge chair in political economy—preceded by Alfred Marshall ...
A hundred years ago, economist Arthur Cecil Pigou explained how to tax things like pollution. Countries are starting to do it. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here. A hundred years ago, economist ...
Arthur Cecil Pigou made lasting contributions to the science of economics, but for macroeconomists of a certain generation, he will always be considered a laughingstock. Professor Pigou taught at ...