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 ...

If you’ve filled up at the pump recently, you probably were reminded how much it costs to drive. But all the gas, insurance, repairs and other things you pay for are not the only costs of driving.

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In a recent paper in this journal, "The Death of the Pigovian Tax? Policy Implications from the Double-Dividend Debate," Eban Goodstein examines the theoretical results and policy implications of the ...

“A tax on stupidity” is how a former colleague of mine (who typically opposed most forms of taxation) liked to describe, and justify, revenue raised by governments through lotteries. A somewhat ...

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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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert W. Wood is a tax lawyer focusing on taxes and litigation. Adam Davidson’s A Tax on Annoying Behavior? in the January 13 New ...

For the last two decades of his life, Arthur Cecil Pigou didn’t get much respect. Once considered Britain’s leading economist, he had come under caustic attack from a colleague at Cambridge-his friend ...