Paying for Pollution: Why a Carbon Tax Is Good for America
- ISBN-10
- 019069419X
- ISBN-13
- 9780190694197
- Series
- Paying for Pollution
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 200
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-01-10
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- Gilbert E. Metcalf
Description
Climate change : what's the big deal? -- Business as usual : what are the costs? -- Why do economists like a carbon tax? -- Isn't there a better way? (No, there isn't) -- Cap and trade : the other way to price pollution -- What to do with $200 billion : give it back -- So you want a carbon tax : how do you design it? -- Objections to a carbon tax -- Enacting a carbon tax: how do we get there? -- Afterword : what next? -- References -- Notes
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Other editions
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- 1994
- 36 pages
- Paperback
- Department of Economics, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Social Sciences
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- 1990
- 51 pages
- Paperback
- H.M. Stationery Office
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