Just land value taxes and, if you insist, a few sin and Pigou taxes.
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Just one point about the most important of these Pigou Taxes that are being proposed though.
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Also called Pigovian taxes after 20th century British economist Arthur Pigou, they target behavior that harms others.
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No, Pigou, as the successor to Marshall, was very definitely a neo-classical economist.
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Robert Frank has a piece in the New York Times looking at the idea of Pigou Taxes.
Greg Mankiw has (not quite entirely jokingly) started the Pigou Club for those who would sign on to the idea for example.
Serious economists, from Nicholas Stern and Greg Mankiw all the way back to Arthur Pigou agree that this is the way to do it.
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The latest attempt is by a couple of assistant professors (OK, one, I could only be bothered to look up one author of this nonsense) claiming that Pigou Taxes could be used to solve the problem of inequality.
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