"Climate change skeptics and business pundits alike are convinced that any public policy instruments used to curtail environmental degradation are antithetical to the interests of the corporate community. However, many companies have actually come out in favour of carbon pricing. In Business in...

While carbon pricing, in general, and carbon taxes, in particular, are popular with economists, they are subject to considerable misunderstanding among policy makers and the public. In this paper I consider and refute five myths about carbon taxes: 1) that a carbon price will hurt economic...

The economic prescription for climate change is clear: price carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions to internalize climate damages. In practice, a variety of political economy constraints prevent the introduction of a carbon price equal to the full social cost of emissions. This...

Zum Schutz der Umwelt wird in Deutschland vornehmlich eine Politik der Verbote, Gebote und der technischen Standards betrieben. Dieses Buch ist ein Plädoyer für mehr Marktwirtschaft in der Umweltpolitik. Die Simulationsrechnungen mit dem empirisch fundierten und tief untergliederten...