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Arthur Cecil Pigou Quotes

1877–1959 England

Arthur Cecil Pigou (November 18, 1877 – March 7, 1959) was an English economist. As a teacher and builder of the school of economics at Cambridge University he trained and influenced many Cambridge economists who went on to fill chairs of economics around the world.

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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.

The Economics of Welfare (1920)

Though a skilled mathematician, Alfred Marshall used mathematics sparingly. He saw that excessive reliance on this instrument might lead us astray in pursuit of intellectual toys, imaginary problems not conforming to the conditions of real life: and further, might distort our sense of proportion by causing us to neglect factors that could not easily be worked up in the mathematical machine.

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