
First Serious Optimist
A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century''s most influential economists
The First Serious Optimist is an intellectual biography of the British economist A. C. Pigou (1877–1959), a founder of welfare economics and one of the twentieth century''s most important and original thinkers. Though long overshadowed by his intellectual rival John Maynard Keynes, Pigou was instr...
A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century''s most influential economists
The First Serious Optimist is an intellectual biography of the British economist A. C. Pigou (1877–1959), a founder of welfare economics and one of the twentieth century''s most important and original thinkers. Though long overshadowed by his intellectual rival John Maynard Keynes, Pigou was instr...