Arthur Pigou wasn’t a KGB agent after all

by on December 21, 2006 at 4:37 am in History | Permalink

Or so it seems.  For twenty-five years I thought he was.  As I recall, the John Costello and Richard Deacon books said he recruited impressionable young British men to the Soviet side.  Now, using Google BookSearch I read that he was mistakenly accused.  Pigou, by the way, no matter what his politics, remains one of the most underrated economists.  He was, among other things, also a father of behavioral economics.

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