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SUMMARY:The first serious optimist: A.C. Pigou and the politics of welfare
  economics - Ian Kumekawa\, Centre for History and Economics
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CONTACT:Dr Duncan Needham
DESCRIPTION:The Cambridge economist A.C. Pigou was a founding figure in th
 e economics of welfare. In the years since his death in 1959\, Pigou has b
 een figured as a pre-war liberal\, a centrist\, and even an anti-Keynesian
  conservative. This paper re-evaluates the politics of Pigou’s economic 
 thought during Pigou’s lifetime. His enduring ideas about welfare were g
 enerated largely before World War I\, in a period of Liberal optimism abou
 t the ability of economic science and the state to improve societal wellbe
 ing. In the wake of World War I\, Pigou’s own optimism abated. However\,
  with the rise of the Labour party’s fortunes during and after World War
  II\, Pigou returned to the hopefulness of his early work\, reinvigorated 
 by changes he saw around him.
LOCATION:Old Library\, Darwin College
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