Intellectual Disagreement between Keynes and Pigou
Despite a shared intellectual background as heirs to Alfred Marshall's school of economics, economists Arthur Pigou and John Maynard Keynes had significant disagreements and engaged in mutual criticism. A key example is Keynes's critique of Pigou's 'The Theory of Unemployment' within his 'General Theory', which was met with a critical response from Pigou.
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