Pigovian

English

Adjective

Pigovian (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of Pigouvian.
    • 1992, Hal C. Varian, Microeconomic Analysis, 3rd edition, W. W. Norton & Company, page 436:
      We have argued above that Pigovian taxes were not adequate in general to solve the externalities due to the information problem: the taxing authority in general can't be expected to know the costs imposed by the externalities.
    • 2009 December 2, Derek Thompson, “Are US Consumers Really Over Leveraged?”, in The Atlantic‎[1]:
      If there is one axiom of today's Pigovian pessimism it is the idea that after decades of decadent reliance on debt to goose up consumption, US consumers are structurally over leveraged.
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