The first serious optimist: A. C. Pigou and the birth of welfare economics

Ian Kumekawa

Originally published in Public Choice

Pete Boettke reviews The first serious optimist: A.C. Pigou and the birth of welfare economics (Princeton University Press, 2017) by Ian Kumekawa. 

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