Pigou Club

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article may not meet the general notability guideline or one of the following specific guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand or rewrite the article to establish its notability. The best way to address this concern is to reference published, third-party sources about the subject. If notability cannot be established, the article is more likely to be considered for redirection, merge or ultimately deletion, per Wikipedia:Guide to deletion.
This article has been tagged since October 2007.

It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into N. Gregory Mankiw. (Discuss)

The Pigou Club is described as "an elite group of economists and pundits who have publicly advocated higher Pigovian taxes, such as gasoline taxes or carbon taxes."^[1] A Pigovian tax (also spelled Pigouvian tax) is a tax levied to correct the negative externalities (negative side-effects) of a market activity. Typically these pundits and economists also advocate lowering other taxes, such as the income tax or the corporate tax. These ideas are also known as an Ecotax or green tax shift.

The Pigou Club was founded by economist N. Gregory Mankiw.

Members	Date of Induction
Anne Applebaum	February 6, 2007
William Baldwin	June 24, 2006
Gary Becker	June 17, 2006
Michael Bloomberg	November 2, 2007
Jay Buckey	January 16, 2008
Clive Crook	June 24, 2006
Christopher Dodd	April 25, 2007
Gregg Easterbrook	June 17, 2006
Christopher Farrell	June 24, 2006
Robert H. Frank	June 17, 2006
Bill Frenzel	February 16, 2007
Thomas Friedman	June 17, 2006
David Frum	November 9, 2006
Jason Furman	February 2, 2007
Ted Gayer	June 27, 2006
Al Gore	June 24, 2006
Alan Greenspan	October 2, 2006
Paul Gu	January 27, 2007
Tim Harford	December 8, 2006
Kevin Hassett	January 29, 2007
William Hoagland	February 16, 2007
Joe Klein	June 17, 2006
Mort Kondracke	June 23, 2007
Charles Krauthammer	January 26, 2007
Paul Krugman	June 24, 2006
Anthony Lake	October 30, 2006
John Larson	August 9, 2007
David Leonhardt	February 21, 2007
Steven Levitt	June 18, 2006
Brink Lindsey	December 5, 2006
Ray Magliozzi	January 15, 2007
N. Gregory Mankiw	June 17, 2006
Megan McArdle	June 24, 2006
Daniel McFadden	January 22, 2007
Mike Moffatt	September 16, 2006
Alan Mulally	August 9, 2007
Paul Mulshine	January 27, 2007
Gavin Newsom	December 9, 2007
William Nordhaus	June 17, 2006
Richard Posner	November 4, 2006
Jonathan Rauch	June 17, 2006
Kenneth Rogoff	September 16, 2006
Nouriel Roubini	November 9, 2006
Robert J. Samuelson	January 17, 2007
Andrew Samwick	June 24, 2006
Isabel Sawhill	February 16, 2007
George Schultz	October 30, 2006
Robert J. Shapiro	February 20, 2007
Rob Stavins	December 10, 2006
Charles Stenholm	February 16, 2007
Andrew Sullivan	June 24, 2006
Lawrence Summers	October 31, 2006
John Tierney	June 17, 2006
Hal Varian	October 1, 2006
Paul Volcker	February 14, 2007

In addition, the periodical The Economist has repeatedly expressed support for Pigouvian policies (cf. January 2007 cover story, which states "This paper has repeatedly expressed support for a carbon tax.").

The group received a great deal of publicity when The New York Times published "Raise the Gasoline Tax? Funny, It Doesn’t Sound Republican" on October 8, 2006. The backlash came soon after, as the National Post, a Canadian right-of-center newspaper, started the Nopigou Club.