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Pigouvian tax

tax on activities generating negative externalities
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Summary

Pigouvian tax is an environmental economics[1]. It draws 2,713 Wikipedia views per month (environmental economics category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • Named after: Arthur Cecil Pigou[3]
  • Subclass of: tax[4]
  • Commons category: Pigovian tax[5]
  • Partially coincident with: sin tax[6]
  • Has goal: disincentive[7]
  • P14968: weapon[8]

Why It Matters

Pigouvian tax has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

Related Entities

Arthur Cecil Pigou

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16h ago · Salgo60 · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['commons', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'gl', 'he', 'h
    P14968 → weapon
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Partially coincident with → sin tax
    Instance of → environmental economics
    Subclass of → tax
    Named after → Arthur Cecil Pigou
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|11 */ Yso id: 11123, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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