Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of Pigouvian.
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.
2009 December 2, Derek Thompson, “Are US Consumers Really Over Leveraged?”, in The Atlantic1 more example
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.
1992, Hal C. Varian, Microeconomic Analysis, 3rd edition, W. W. Norton & Company, page 436
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