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Ross McKitrick: a truth-based cap-and-trade linked to tropical troposphere temperature, which you can then short if a skeptic or go long if an alarmist

07 Dec 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: cap and trade, carbon pricing, green rent seeking

#VirtueSignalling @nzprocom wants a great big increase in an old tax

27 Apr 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics Tags: carbon pricing, carbon tax

Oops, I overestimated the cost of doing nothing about global warming

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice Tags: carbon pricing, carbon tax, climate alarmism, cost benefit analysis, expressive voting, mitigation and adaptation, rational irrationality

Source: Global Warming, Cost-Benefit Analysis, and The End of Doom, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty from Ron Bailey (2016) The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century.

Why are Australian power prices so high?

15 Aug 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: carbon pricing, climate alarmism, power prices, solao energy, solar power, wind power

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Formal carbon pricing initiatives around the world

11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in environmental economics, global warming Tags: bootleggers and baptists, carbon pricing, carbon tax, expressive voting, global warming, green rent seeking

#Carbonpricing is expanding w/ initiatives now valued at nearly $50 bil: wrld.bg/NBuz0 http://t.co/qELgE97i1p—
World Bank Pubs (@WBPubs) May 29, 2015

Carbon pricing expanded in the last 18 months. New report shows where & how: wrld.bg/Nrhsq http://t.co/D4uQtjl6EZ—
IFC (@IFC_org) May 27, 2015

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