A. C. Pigou's rejection of Pareto's law
指出庇古在《福利经济学》中误读了帕累托收入分配法则的关键点,并说明其批评如何反映庇古的福利经济学目标,同时提出一种与庇古目标一致的批评方式。
In Pigou's Wealth and Welfare, as well as in each of the four editions of his The Economics of Welfare, one chapter is dedicated entirely to the critical assessment, and ultimate rejection, of 'Pareto's law' of income distribution. This note highlights Pigou's uncorrected misreading of a critical aspect of Pareto's analysis of income distribution; illustrates what his criticisms of Pareto's law reveal about Pigou's objectives for welfare economics; and indicates how Pareto's analysis of income distribution could have been criticised in a manner that is consistent with Pigou's objectives for welfare economics. Copyright , Oxford University Press.