As Arthur Cecil Pigou observed in 1920: "If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished." For more complete context, https:/

As Arthur Cecil Pigou observed in 1920: "If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished." For more complete context, https://archive.org/details/ost-business-pigou_0316_ebk_v60/page/n25/mode/2up?q=%22If+a+man+marries+his+housekeeper+or+his+cook%2C+the+national+dividend+is+diminished.%22 https://archive.org/details/ost-business-pigou_0316_ebk_v60/... "Yet again, the services rendered by women enter into the dividend when they are rendered in exchange for wages, whether in the factory or in the home, but do not enter into it when they are rendered by mothers and wives gratuitously to their own families. Thus, if a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished. These things are paradoxes. It is a paradox also that, when Poor Law or Factory Regulations divert women workers from factory work or paid home-work to unpaid home-work, in attendance on their children, preparation of the family meals, repair of the family clothes, thoughtful expenditure of housekeeping money, and so on, the national dividend, on our definition, suffers a loss against which there is to be set no compensating gain. It is a paradox, lastly, that the frequent desecration of natural beauty through the hunt for coal or gold, or through the more blatant forms of commercial advertisement, must, on our definition, leave the national dividend intact, though, if it had been practicable, as it is in some exceptional circumstances, to make a charge for viewing scenery, it would not have done so."