How economics saved Christmas
An amazing, economics-themed spin on "How the Grinch stole Christmas!"
Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot.Head over to Forbes to read the rest.
But the Grinch, who lived just north of Whoville, DID NOT.
He stood and he hated the Whos and their noise
He hated the shrieks of the Who girls and boys
For fifty-three years he'd put up with it now-
He had to stop Christmas from coming, somehow.
He asked and he questioned the whole thing's legality
Then his eyes brightened: he screamed "externality!"
He reached for his textbooks; he knew what to do
He'd fight them with ideas from A.C. Pigou
This idea has merit, he thought in the frost
A tax that was equal to external cost
At the margin, would give all the Who girls and boys
An incentive to stop all their screaming and noise
Failing that, an injunction to make them all cease
And they'd have to pay him to have their Roast Beast.
