A pigovian tax could be levied on items such as soda, which could lower the consumption of the unhealthy product as well as raise money for schools. “The people who support them most voraciously are ...

Punning aside, a Pigovian tax is not a tax on pigs. Rather, it is a tax on the society-wide or “external” costs of undesirable activities. Such taxes were described by British economist Arthur Pigou ...

Adam Davidson’s A Tax on Annoying Behavior? in the January 13 New York Times Magazine got me thinking. Also called Pigovian taxes after 20th century British economist Arthur Pigou, they target ...

Imagine a club that includes people with such diverse public policy opinions as Al Gore and Lindsey Graham, Charles Krauthammer and Paul Krugman, Ralph Nader and Larry Summers. Imagine further that ...

Carbon-based taxes–which fall broadly into the category of Pigovian tax, or taxes that are designed to dis-incentivize a negative behavior, in this case fossil fuel consumption–are already in effect ...

It's an obscure tax you've probably never heard of. Now, you might like Pigou's early work better, but his analysis of externalities is the best way to think about the most important policy question ...