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Some motherly advice on deficit reduction
Over on EconomistMom, Diane Lim Rogers notes that economists of all political and ideological stripes appear to support pricing carbon, which, by itself, amounts to increasing taxes. She then muses...
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Where’s your network?
Ryan Avent wants to know if carbon and congestion pricing will boost the case for regional rail: I’m of the opinion that a carbon pricing scheme would give a boost to rail travel over both driving and...
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Equity, efficiency, and (long run) equivalence
You knew, dear readers, that the econoblogosphere has been arguing vociferously the last few days about carbon taxes versus cap and trade and to what degree they are equivalent, didn’t you? It seems...
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Apparently CO2′s gonna cost $680/ton by 2010 if the Dems get their way
From the department of disinformation: Jim Sensenbrenner, the ranking Republican on the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming, made a cameo appearance at the international...
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Climate change legislation in the last Congress
There is a new feature up at the RFF website that sums up the activity on climate change legislation in the 110th Congress: http://www.rff.org/climatechangelegislation It provides an overview of some...
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Assuming we cap carbon emissions, what’s the added benefit of enacting a...
I’ve been really busy since I got back from Thailand, which is why I haven’t been posting. Now I’ve got a cold and don’t really have the mental energy to come up with anything coherent or insightful....
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Evidenceless Grist argument of the day
Sean Casten explains that “carbon pricing does not necessarily cause higher energy prices” because………. well because it just doesn’t. While I’m fine with his point that we shouldn’t assume that pricing...
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Question of the day: How much should we care about the regional incidence of...
I’m super busy today, helping Dallas prepare to testify before Ways and Means tomorrow. So rather than rush a post I want to ask yall a question. Two days ago I wrote that consumers in some states will...
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Write a letter to the editor, and nobody cares. Call someone an idiot on the...
Well: Who Pays for Cap and Trade? — II We don’t mind an intellectual fight, and in a nearby letter, two economists at Resources for the Future take aim at our Monday editorial on how the costs of cap...
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Inconsistent WSJ logic of the day
From Martin Feldstein, last Thursday. First, he justifies the seemingly time-inconsistent notion that we shouldn’t cap carbon in 2012 because we’re in a recession now: Even if the proposed tax...
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