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Arthur Cecil Pigou

1877 - 1959

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Arthur Cecil Pigou (; 18 November 1877 – 7 March 1959) 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 take chairs of economics around the world. His work covered various fields of economics, particularly welfare economics, but also included business cycle theory, unemployment, public finance, index numbers, and measurement of national output. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Cecil Pigou has received more than 402,484 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Arthur Cecil Pigou is the 69th most popular economist (up from 80th in 2019), the 641st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 702nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Economist.

Arthur Cecil Pigou was a British economist who is most famous for his work on welfare economics. He was also a founding member of the Econometric Society.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Arthur Cecil Pigou ranks 69 out of 414. Before him are Franco Modigliani, Robert Mundell, Cornelius Castoriadis, Trygve Haavelmo, Ben Bernanke, and Kenneth Arrow. After him are Nikolai Kondratiev, Harry Markowitz, Leonid Hurwicz, James Tobin, Henry Mintzberg, and John Kenneth Galbraith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Arthur Cecil Pigou ranks 21. Before him are Said Nursî, Gabriele Münter, Kārlis Ulmanis, Maurice Halbwachs, Alfred Cortot, and Edgar Cayce. After him are Enrico De Nicola, Oswald Avery, Karl Abraham, Mykola Leontovych, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, and Alfred Kubin. Among people deceased in 1959, Arthur Cecil Pigou ranks 20. Before him are Camilo Cienfuegos, Bohuslav Martinů, George Grosz, Buddy Holly, Alfred Schütz, and Errol Flynn. After him are Enrico De Nicola, Ritchie Valens, Alfred Kubin, Raphael Lemkin, Mike Hawthorn, and Mario Lanza.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Cecil Pigou ranks 641 out of 8,785. Before him are Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868), Julian Barnes (1946), Kenneth MacAlpin (810), Henry Bessemer (1813), Rudolf Abel (1903), and W. H. Auden (1907). After him are James Hargreaves (1720), Philippa of England (1394), James Paul Moody (1887), James Dewar (1842), George Martin (1926), and John Kendrew (1917).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, Arthur Cecil Pigou ranks 13. Before him are John Law (1671), William Petty (1623), Ronald Coase (1910), William Stanley Jevons (1835), John Hicks (1904), and Benjamin Graham (1894). After him are James Mill (1773), Thomas Mun (1571), Richard Stone (1913), Joan Robinson (1903), Harriet Martineau (1802), and James Meade (1907).

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