The Pigou Club Manifesto - Director's Cut

On my Harvard website, I have posted a talk I gave earlier in the year, called Smart Taxes: An Open Invitation to Join the Pigou Club.

Regular readers of this blog will recognize the issue and many of the arguments, but I thought it would be useful to collect the ideas in one place and to develop the case a bit more thoroughly than is possible in a blog post or in a newspaper op-ed.