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The Pigouvian Constitution
Peter N. Salib
Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School.

Thank you to William Baude, Omri Ben-Shahar, Joseph Blocher, Joshua Braver, Kiel Brennan-Marquez, Jacob Bronsther, Ryan Copus, Andrew Manuel Crespo, Gregory Elinson, Richard H. Fallon, Jr., Jacob E. Gersen, Daniel Hemel, Louis Kaplow, Guha Krishnamurthi, Jonathan S. Masur, Alexander Platt, Blaine G. Saito, Steven Shavell, Matthew C. Stephenson, Lior J. Strahilevitz, Susannah Barton Tobin, Laura Weinrib, Sarah Winsberg, Carleen Zubrzycki, and the participants in the Harvard Law and Economics Workshop for valuable comments and suggestions. Thanks also to Michael Hornzell for excellent research assistance. Finally, thanks to the editors of the University of Chicago Law Review for their hard work and insightful comments.

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