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Fritz Machlup

Born in Austria, Fritz Machlup moved to the United States in 1933. He worked in two main areas: industrial organization, with particular emphasis on the production and distribution of knowledge, and international monetary economics. One of Machlup’s most famous articles in industrial organization is his 1946 defense of the economist’s standard assumption that firms maximize […]

Arthur Cecil Pigou

  Arthur C. Pigou, a British economist, is best known for his work in welfare economics. In his book The Economics of Welfare Pigou developed alfred marshall’s concept of externalities, costs imposed or benefits conferred on others that are not taken into account by the person taking the action. He argued that the existence of […]

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