Metcalf

Paying for Pollution C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Paying for Pollution incisively examines the very real costs-economic and social-of climate change and the challenges of concerted action to reduce future losses due to damages of higher temperatures and more extreme weather. Gilbert E. Metcalf argues that there is a convergence of social, economic, environmental, and political forces that provides an opening for a new approach to climate policy, one based on market principles that can appeal to politicians acrossthe political spectrum. After all, markets work best when the price of a good reflects all its costs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780190694197
• ISBN-10: 019069419X
• Artikelnr.: 54313719

Autorenporträt

Gilbert E. Metcalf is the John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service and Professor of Economics at Tufts University. In addition, he is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a University Fellow at Resources for the Future. In 2011-2012, Metcalf served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and Energy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
1. Climate Change: What's the Big Deal?
2. Business as Usual: What Are the Costs?
3. Why Do Economists Like a Carbon Tax?
4. Isn't There a Better Way? (No, There Isn't)
5. Cap and Trade: The Other Way to Price Pollution
6. What To Do With 200 Billion: Give It Back
7. So You Want a Carbon Tax: How Do You Design It?
8. Objections to a Carbon Tax
9. Enacting a Carbon Tax: How Do We Get There?
Afterword - What Next?
References
Notes