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These 14 volumes bring together the works of the important economist A.C. Pigou. The set includes all of Pigou's major works from 1906 to 1952 as well as many of his smaller essays and lectures. Included are many items that are now rare and hard to access for the modern scholar. The collection starts with his acknowledged classic, "Wealth and Welfare", in which he pioneered welfare economics, and which embodied his concerns for justice and the protection of the interests of the poor. This work was vastly expanded over the years into "The Economics of Welfare",. Many of his other popular and influential works such as "Unemployment" and "The Political Economy of War" can be found here.;Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-1959) was a British economist of the two decades before World War II. His writings extended over 50 years and covered a wide range of economic subjects. He is best known for his contributions to the theory of economic welfare. A student under Alfred Marshall at Cambridge and his successor as Professor of Political Economy, he was responsible for communicating Marshallian orthodoxy to the next generation of Cambridge economists. As a result, he became the main target for the new