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Sunday, February 23, 2020

More on How To Make a Carbon Tax a Generational Win-Win

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Last April, Laurence Kotlikoff, together with three distinguished colleagues, published a long, highly mathematical working paper on how...
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Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Starve-The-Beast Libertarians Should Beware the Rule of the Clan

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Tyler Cowen thinks that libertarians are waking up to the idea that the problem we face is not that the state is too big, but rather, tha...
Monday, February 3, 2020

The EPA's SAFE Vehicle Rule is a Triple Play of Regulatory Ineptitude

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In 2018, the EPA released a proposal called the SAFE Vehicle Rule , with SAFE standing for "Safer, Affordable, and Fuel Efficient....
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

The Scissors of Supply and Demand are Cutting Carbon Emissions, but Not Fast Enough

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Since the time of Alfred Marshall, more than a century ago, economics professors have taught their students that  markets are like sc...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

How Can We Ensure That a Carbon Tax is a Generational Win-Win?

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Photo courtesy of Pixabay.com A recent  NBER working paper  by a distinguished team of economists argues that a properly designed carb...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Can We Put Everyone to Work? Four Ideas Compared.

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Can we put everyone to work? In a way, it seems like an odd time to be asking the question. After all, the official unemployment rate is a...
Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Carbon Pricing and Its Enemies

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On December 4, I made a presentation to a student group on Carbon Pricing and Its Enemies. Here is a link to the slides for the presentatio...