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Pigovian

Pigovian is the alternative form of Pigouvian.

Meaning of Pigouvian

Adjective

Pigouvian (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959), English economist.
    • This steady state distortion could be eliminated by appealing to a constant Pigouvian subsidy to labor, as is commonplace in the New Keynesian literature on optimal monetary policy.2023, Eric Sims, Jing Cynthia Wu, Ji Zhang, “The Four-Equation New Keynesian Model”, in The Review of Economics and Statistics, volume 105, number 4, →DOI, (online appendix D), pages 931–947

Phrases with Pigovian

Questions about Pigovian

What is Pigovian the alternative form of?
Pigovian is the alternative form of Pigouvian.

Words near Pigovian in the dictionary

  1. pigout
  2. pigouts
  3. Pigouvian
  4. Pigouvian tax
  5. Pigouvian taxes
  6. Pigovian
  7. Pigovian tax
  8. Pigovian taxes
  9. pigpen
  10. pigpen cipher
  11. pigpen ciphers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pigovian (page history and authors); Pigouvian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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