Talk:Pigou Club

Nopigou Club?

I have doubts about saying that the National Post actually "founded" such an organization. The article gives the impression that the term is merely a catchy way to headline an opinion columnist's opposition to Pigovian taxes. Is there any evidence of a real organization? If not, we should leave in the external link as a criticsm of the Pigou Club, but delete the sentence in text about the supposed "Nopigou Club". JamesMLane t c 11:04, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Nopigou club homepage is here:

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/features/nopigouclub/index.html

Terence Corcoran invites people to join at that link. He's also started a Nopigou blog:

http://nopigouclub.blogspot.com/

Econlad

I don't know, it seems about as reasonable as suggesting that a bunch of blog posts by Greg Mankiw "founded" a "group", and listing the dates on which Mankiw blogged about each person's Pigovian-tax advocacy. This article is rather soapbox-y IMO. It could probably be deleted outright, though I will propose only that it be merged into Mankiw's page. --Jjb 09:22, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. This article should be deleted in my opinion. Marc K 19:19, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I say we merge it with the Greg Mankiw article. I'll put it on my to-do list if no one objects, and it should get done eventually. -FrankTobia (talk) 01:15, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I put the merge banner on the articles a while ago, there's been very little discussion since then. I think we should merge NoPigou into Pigou, and Pigou into Mankiw. It think it is being overweighted as a topic since it's relatviely easier to understand than many of Mankiw's important contributions to economics because they are technical.AleXd (talk) 13:06, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm having trouble finding a Wikipedia article on the NoPigou club. Could you provide a wikilink? Thanks. -FrankTobia (talk) 14:17, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As far as notability goes, the Pigou Club was recently referenced in the Wall Street Journal (May 7, 2008). The article URL is http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121010926955071849.html Mad Hops (talk) 21:51, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah New york Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Economist, can't be notable lets delete it. Sheesh. Fine take the blog dates out but if Pigou Club is not notable what is. RetroS1mone talk 04:16, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]