Assessments of A. C. Pigou’s Fellowship Theses
利用剑桥大学国王学院档案中心的文件，考察了庇古两篇研究员论文的评审过程，发现其第一篇论文对他后来的财富与福利研究比通常认为的更重要，而评审者对第二篇论文的不同反应反映了他们对经济理论应用于具体历史事件的不同看法。
This study reports on the light that documents stored in the Archive Centre at King's College, Cambridge, shed on A. C. Pigou's fellowship theses. Particular consideration is given to Walter Alexander Raleigh's and Brooke Foss Westcott's assessments of Pigou's first, and unsuccessful, fellowship thesis titled ``Robert Browning as a Religious Teacher'' and to Alfred Marshall's and Herbert Foxwell's assessments of Pigou's second, and successful, fellowship thesis titled ``The Causes and Effects of Change in the Relative Values of Agricultural Produce in the United Kingdom during the Last Fifty Years.'' The principal findings of the study are as follows: Pigou's first thesis is more important to his subsequent and famous studies on wealth and welfare than is generally appreciated; and the assessors' diverse reactions to his second thesis largely reflect their different views on the scope for applying economic theory to reveal insights into concrete economic events that have taken place over time.