I had a great admiration for Pigou. I thought that, in many ways, he was not only a faithful follower of Alfred Marshall, but he was also a more fertile developer of the Marshallian tradition than Marshall himself. … Whitehead said to me: Don't you think that Pigou was an overrated economist? Wasn't Foxwell a better man? Since I am an honest man, I said to Whitehead: No, I think Pigou was a much more important economist than Foxwell.

Kotaro Suzumura, An interview with Paul Samuelson: welfare economics, old and new, and social choice theory (2005) - New millennium