pigovian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.26 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of Pigouvian.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."