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Butterfly Economics: A New General Theory of Social and Economic Behavior.(Review)
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Ormerod, Paul. 1999. Butterfly Economics: A New General Theory of Social and Economic Behavior. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-375-40765-0
Few economic writings have been more popular in their time than Fable of the Bees by Bernard Mandeville. The book, which caused an uproar because of what was perceived as unorthodox moral stance (the subtitle reads: "Public Vices, Private Benefits"), used an image of a beehive to illustrate the central message: private austerity does not lead to a prosperous economy. Paul Ormerod's recent book, Butterfly Economics, promises to be ...
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Some reflections on the 'Pigou-Robinson' theory of exploitation.(Arthur Cecil Pigou, Joan Robinson)(Essay)
Magazine article from: History of Economics Review
; ...exploitation theory is typically dated to Pigou's 1920 work, The Economics of Welfare...s work appears as a linear extension of Pigou's analysis or is indistinguishable from...utilised to describe an amalgam composed of Pigou's definition of exploitation and Robinson...
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The Golden Age of the Quantity Theory.
Magazine article from: Southern Economic Journal
; ...Irving Fisher; the contributions of Arthur Cecil Pigou are shown to have been important...Marshall, play a role, as do Fisher, Pigou, and Ralph Hawtrey. All of these...price levels, with the Marshalls, Pigou, and Hawtrey treating such real...
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COMMENT: Chancellor will need a magic moment.
Magazine article from: Mortgage Strategy
; ...than a speech by Vilfredo Pareto or Arthur Cecil Pigou, both influential economists...the mortgage market. Pareto and Pigou were excellent economists. Pareto...was 100 years ago. Meanwhile, Pigou taught at Cambridge University...
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Environmental externalities, market distortions and the economics of renewable energy technologies [dagger].
Magazine article from: The Energy Journal
; ...by the famous British economist Arthur Cecil Pigou as a means of reducing London's famous fogs (or smogs). Pigou observed that pollution imposed...caused by pollution. At the time Pigou's proposal was regarded as an...
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Burning up: energy usage and the environment.(fuel for thought: ENERGY)
Magazine article from: Harvard International Review
; ...early years of the last century by British economist Arthur Cecil Pigou as a means of reducing London's famous fogs. His...the costs of pollution to the public. At the time, Pigou's proposal was regarded as an academic curiosity and...
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Sodas make a sensible tax target Economic Scene
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...undertaxed. Economists refer to taxes on such activities as Pigovian taxes, after the 20th-century English economist Arthur Cecil Pigou who advocated them. Pigovian taxes have the double advantage of discouraging costly activities and helping to cover...
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Balance, al par, ilusionado y preocupado.(eonomía, España)(TT: Balance, hopeful and worried.)(TA: economy, Spain)
Magazine article from: Epoca
; ...sordina a nada de esto. Antes al contrario, ya existe madurez para entenderlo y reaccionar. El gran economista Arthur Cecil Pigou, discpulo y sucesor en Cambridge de Alfredo Marshall, en su librito Teora y realidad econmica que public en 1935...
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They tax horses, don't they?
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...massages. The Empire State, like Massachusetts, is big on "Pigovian" taxes, named after the British economist Arthur Cecil Pigou, which purport to correct a noxious behavior, e.g. smoking, by taxing it out of existence. Taxes on smoking...
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