National Post gets it right!

It has been brought to my attention that Harvard professor of economics Gregory Mankiw, the author of the textbook used in my Microeconomics course, has started the Pigou Club. The purpose of this club : to get the American government to raise Pigouvian taxes, or what we common people usually call green or social taxes. Well, that was bound to happen.

The best thing about the Pigou Club, however, is that it gave rise to an opposing movement, the Nopigou Club. Championned by Financial Post (now part of the National Post) editor, Terence Corcoran, "the club's purpose is to counter the ideas of the Pigou Club, an informal assembly of economists and pundits who support the idea of raising gasoline taxes."

From their website :

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.

Go take a look at their websit or blog, and see what great things Canadians (sometimes) have to say.