Adam Davidson’s A Tax on Annoying Behavior? in the January 13 New York Times Magazine got me thinking. Also called Pigovian taxes after 20th century British economist Arthur Pigou, they target ...

A pigovian tax could be levied on items such as soda, which could lower the consumption of the unhealthy product as well as raise money for schools. “The people who support them most voraciously are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smoking is expensive and dangerous for health and personal economy. (iStock/Getty Images Plus) While bombs continued to burst in ...

Could a tax on daily nuisances, like talking during movies, really solve revenue gridlock in Washington? A growing number of bipartisan economists seem to think so. In a piece for the New York Times ...

Punning aside, a Pigovian tax is not a tax on pigs. Rather, it is a tax on the society-wide or “external” costs of undesirable activities. Such taxes were described by British economist Arthur Pigou ...