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Prosperity ends in a crisis. The era of optimism dies in the crisis, but in dying it gives birth to an era of pessimism. This new era is born, not an infant, but a giant; for an industrial boom has necessarily been a period of strong emotional excitement, and an excited man passes from one form of excitement to another more rapidly than he passes to quiescence. Under the new error, business is unduly depressed.

Arthur Cecil Pigou

Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants — these elasticities of demand and supply — depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.

Arthur Cecil Pigou

It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to what it imagines for itself as its ideal.

Arthur Cecil Pigou

If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.

Arthur Cecil Pigou

Arthur Cecil Pigou

Arthur Cecil Pigou

Born: November 18, 1877

Died: March 7, 1959 (aged 81)

Bio: Arthur Cecil Pigou was an English economist. As a teacher and builder of the school of economics at the University of Cambridge, he trained and influenced many Cambridge economists who went on to fill chairs of economics around the world.

Known for:

The Economics of Welfare (1920)
The theory of unemployment (1933)
Keynes's General theory (1950)
A study in public finance (1928)
Industrial fluctuations (1927)

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