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In an NBER working paper, Geoffrey Heal discusses some aspects of the energy transition to come. On infrastructure investments: the likely net investment required to go carbon-free is now as little as $0.179 trillion renewable power from wind and solar PV plants is now less expensive than power from gas, coal or nuclear plants … If it were not for the intermittency of renewables, we would save money by converting to clean power. the social benefits from stopping the CO2 emissions...
Read More »“Sinnvoller wäre, den Benzinverbrauch zu besteuern (Better Tax Carbon Emission),” Der Bund, 2019
Der Bund. March 5, 2019. HTML. Short newspaper interview about corrective taxes, tackling problems at the root, and equity vs. efficiency.
Read More »“Sinnvoller wäre, den Benzinverbrauch zu besteuern (Better Tax Carbon Emission),” Der Bund, 2019
Der Bund. March 5, 2019. HTML. Short newspaper interview about corrective taxes, tackling problems at the root, and equity vs. efficiency.
Read More »Carbon Tax
Martin Feldstein, Ted Halstead, and Gregory Mankiw (in the New York Times), as well as George Shultz and James Baker III (in the Wall Street Journal) call for a carbon tax. John Cochrane comments on his blog.
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