Members
The Pigou Club many famous members. A lot of them probably don’t even know we have them on the list, they joined automatically when they expressed “Pigovian” views.
The first and most important member is the founder – Nicholas Gregory Mankiw.
Nobel prize laureates
- Gary S. Becker (+ J. Bates Clark Medal)
- Joseph E. Stiglitz (+ JBCM)
John Bates Clark Medal
- Lawrence Summers
- Paul Krugman
Other fine Pigou Club Members:
- Al Gore (former vice president)
- Alan Greenspan (former Fed chief)
- Amity Schlaes (Wall Street Journal)
- Andrew Samwick (Prof. of Economics, Dartmouth College)
- Andrew Sullivan (journalist)
- Anthony Lake (National Security Advisor to Bill Clinton)
- Brink Lindsey (Vice President for Research, CATO institute)
- Christopher Farrell (economics editor, BusinessWeek)
- Clive Crook (senior editor, The Atlantic Monthly & National Journal)
- David Frum (speechwriter for George W. Bush)
- George Schultz (US Secretary of Labor, Treasury and State)
- Gregg Easterbrook (senior editor, The New Republic)
- Hal Varian (Prof. University of California, Berkeley)
- Joe Klein (jorunalist)
- John Tierney (journalist, The New York Times)
- Jonathan Rauch (journalist)
- Kenneth Rogoff (Prof. of Economics, Harvard University)
- Megan McArdle (journalist, The Economist)
- Mike Moffatt (Economics guide at About.com)
- Nouriel Roubini (Prof. of Economics, Stern School of Business, NYU)
- Richard Posner (former Prof. University of Chicago Law School)
- Robert H. Frank (Prof. of Economics, Cornell University)
- Robert N. Stavins (Prof. of Business and Government, Harvard University)
- Ted Gayer (Prof. of Public Policy, Georgetown University)
- Thomas Friedman ( op-ed columnist for The New York Times, 3x Pulitzer Prize winner)
- Tim Harford (journalist, The Financial Times)
- Tyler Cowen (Prof. of Economics, George Mason University)
- William Baldwin (editor, Forbes)
- William Nordhaus (Prof. of Economics, Yale University)
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Milton Friedman is a candidate that probably should be on the list.
This list will update when new members join. Please send us a comment via Contact page if you discover a new heavyweight member.