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June 2015
The so-called “social cost of carbon” ostensibly measures (in present dollars) the total value of all future climate change damages coming from...
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June 2015
With the Paris UN climate negotiations in December and Senator Whitehouse’s reintroduction of a carbon tax bill, it seems every day we...
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June 2015
In a recent article in the Washington Post, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) compared the opponents of federal regulations and taxes on greenhouse...
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May 2015
As an economist studying climate change policy for several years, I often feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone. To listen to...
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May 2015
Back in 2013, here at IER I discussed Robert Pindyck, a professor of economics and finance at MIT with decades of experience...
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May 2015
In December the United Nations will convene in Paris, for the purpose of hammering out an international agreement on climate change. Reaching...
