Readers on NoPigou Club
NoPigou Club has drawn numerous letters to National Post. A few were published this weekend.
posted by Terence Corcoran at 4:21 PM
Sunday, October 15, 2006
The Mission
Arthur C. Pigou was an early 20th-century British economist, one of the fathers of welfare economics. He believed governments can shape policy for the better by raising taxes on bad things and subsidizing good ones. In the view of the NoPigou Club, the Pigou approach is just another form of central planning dressed up in free market terminology.About Me
- Name: Terence Corcoran
Terence Corcoran, editor of the Financial Post, founded NoPigou Club to counter the ideas of the Pigou Club, an informal assembly of economists and pundits who support the idea of raising gasoline taxes. The main backer of such taxes - known as Pigou taxes - is Harvard University's N. Gregory Mankiw. On his blog, Prof. Mankiw lists the people, Pigou Club members, who support high taxes on gasoline to curb global warming and fight other environmental and economic problems.
Previous Posts
- Market failures a dime a dozen
- Note to Guelph Mercury: Don't do it!
- Would Pigou join the Pigou Club?
- Welcome to NoPigou Club
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