Pigovian

English Adjective - en Pigouvian. en 1992 Hal C. Varian Microeconomic Analysis 3rd 436 W. W. Norton & Company 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. en https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/12/are-us-consumers-really-over-leveraged/31184/ Are US Consumers Really Over Leveraged? The Atlantic 2009-12-02 Derek Thompson (journalist) Derek Thompson 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20221202200531/https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/12/are-us-consumers-really-over-leveraged/31184/ 2 December 2022 en eponyms