and that the inclusion of such a "wealth effect" would make the economy more "self correcting" to drops in aggregate demand than Keynes predicted. Because the effect derives from changes to the "Real Balance", this critique of Keynesianism is also called the Real Balance effect.

History

The Pigou effect was first popularised by Arthur Cecil Pigou in 1943, in The Classical Stationary State an article

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