Pigou, Arthur Cecil 1877-1959
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1877 · died 1959
Arthur Cecil Pigou 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. 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.
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Fellowship dissertation, ‘Causes and effects of changes in the relative values of agricultural produce in the UK during last fifty years’, 1902, King’s College Cambridge
Some printed and typed papers resulting from his work on the Committee on the Currency and Bank of England Note Issues, Marshall Library, Cambridge
Correspondents
WILLIAM HENRY BEVERIDGE, Baron Beveridge, Correspondence 1924-41, Beveridge Papers, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
EDWIN CANNAN, Correspondence 1914-33, Cannan Papers, BLPES
COLIN CLARK, Correspondence 1937-9, Colin Clark Papers, Fryer Library, University of Queensland
HERBERT SOMERTON FOXWELL, Correspondence 1898-1928, Foxwell Papers, Kwansei Gakuin University*
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, Baron Keynes, Correspondence, mostly undated, Keynes Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge
MACMILLAN, Correspondence 1904-56, BL Add MSS 55199, 55200
DENNIS HULME ROBERTSON, several letters from Pigou, mostly undated, Robertson Papers, Trinity College Cambridge
LIONEL CHARLES ROBBINS, Correspondence 1929, 1938, 1949, Robbins Papers, BLPES
Printed material
John Saltmarsh and Patrick Wilkinson, Arthur Cecil Pigou 1877-1950: Fellow and Professor of Political Economy (Cambridge, 1960)
ODNB; New Palgrave; IESS XII 90
Portraits
NPG; Marshall Library, Cambridge
* For availability see item on Foxwell Papers in News and Views