Abstract This economic policy forum deals with the design and impact of an ecological tax reform. Gernot Klepper and Christian M. Scholz argue that the various effects of an ecological tax reform cannot be discussed separately. Rather, allocative effects and fiscal policy aspects have to be...

Abstract Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker holds the view that the trouble with the energy- environment debate is that it typically circles around different modes of supplies with their respective environmental drawbacks. Rising demand for energy tends to be seen as an indisputable given. The fact...