Ian Kumekawa. The First Serious Optimist. A.C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics. Princeton University Press, Princeton (NJ)2017. x, 332 pp. Ill. $35.00; £27.95.

Erwin Dekker

doi:10.1017/S0020859018000433

Ian Kumekawa. The First Serious Optimist. A.C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics. Princeton University Press, Princeton (NJ)2017. x, 332 pp. Ill. $35.00; £27.95.

Erwin Dekker

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Journal	International Review of Social History
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