Carbon tax or Green New Deal?
Published in Columbus Dispatch, March 15, 2019 by Brent Sohngen Ohioans are about to get another taste of carbon taxes if legislators approve some amount of a gasoline-tax increase as proposed by Gov. Mike DeWine. The legislature will never call…
Do all economists agree that a Carbon Tax is the best way to address climate change?
Economist and former Chair of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, is circulating a letter signed by “27 Nobel Laureate economists, 3 other former Chairs of the Federal Reserve and 15 former Chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers” that claims…
Why a $1 per gallon gas tax might make sense (cents?)
This is modified from a post I wrote a while ago for my own blog “Environmental Economics.” There I spend a good bit of time trying to convince people that the easiest solution to many environmental problems is to get…
The Challenge of Climate Change
Posted by Brent Sohngen (sohngen.1@osu.edu) The science of climate change is settled, so the scientists have told us. Recent reports from the United Nations and the U.S. government have told us the human signature is written all over the floods,…
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