Economics
Paying for the Climate
A price on carbon, an argument about the future, and the policies that won
Pigou · Stern · Nordhaus · Weitzman · 3 chapters · 8 min read
A price on carbon, an argument about the future, and the policies that won.
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The Bill
- 01Putting a Price on ItOn the instrument economists agree about and politics keeps declining.
- 02The Argument About the Discount RateOn the parameter that decides almost everything, and is not an economic question.
- 03Subsidy, Standards and BordersOn the policies that actually worked, which were not the efficient ones.