Al Gore in the Pigou Club

Al Gore on the Charlie Rose Show this week reaffirmed his membership in the Pigou Club. Starting at 42:45, he endorses a revenue-neutral shift toward carbon taxes.

The Pigou Club is an elite group of economists and pundits with the good sense to have publicly advocated higher Pigovian taxes, such as gasoline taxes or carbon taxes. The current membership includes:

• Greg Mankiw (Fortune 5/24/99, WSJ 1/3/06, 5/31/06)
• Bill Nordhaus (Foreign Policy in Focus 3/27/06)
• Martin Feldstein (WSJ 6/4/92)
• Gary Becker (Businessweek 5/27/02)
• Robert Frank (NY Times 2/16/06, 6/8/06)
• Andrew Samwick (his blog)
• Paul Krugman (Slate 4/18/97)
• Greg Easterbrook (NY Times 5/25/04)
• John Tierney (NY Times 10/4/05, 5/23/06)
• Jonathan Rauch (National Journal 2/9/02)
• Thomas Friedman (NY Times 9/21/05, 2/8/06, 6/16/06)
• Joe Klein (Time 5/7/06)
• Andrew Sullivan (Time 4/12/04)
• Jane Galt (her blog)
• Christopher Farrell (Businessweek 8/19/05)
• William Baldwin (Forbes 6/19/06)
• Clive Crook (National Journal 6/2/06)

We are always looking for more members.