Arthur Cecil Pigou

Arthur Cecil Pigou
Born	(1877-11-18)18 November 1877 Ryde, Isle of Wight, England
Died	7 March 1959(1959-03-07) (aged 81) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Academic career
Institution	University of Cambridge
Field	Welfare economics
School or tradition	Neoclassical economics
Alma mater	King's College, Cambridge
Influences	Alfred Marshall, Henry Sidgwick[1]
Contributions	Externalities Pigou effect Pigouvian tax
Awards	1899 Chancellor's Gold Medal 1903 Adam Smith Prize

Arthur Cecil Pigou (/ˈpiːɡuː/; 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.^[2] His reputation was affected adversely by influential economic writers who used his work as the basis on which to define their own opposing views. He reluctantly served on several public committees, including the Cunliffe Committee and the 1919 Royal Commission on income tax.