The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics by Ian Kumekawa

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Book Review| April 01 2019

The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics

. By Kumekawa, Ian.

Princeton

:

Princeton University Press

,

2017

. 352$35.00

Michael McLure

Business School, University of Western Australia

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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (2): 369–373.

https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-7368908

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