Arik Levinson
Explain *that*, Econ 101 professors.
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See something, say something. Comment here by Sept 29.
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My take: It takes much more effort to refute nonsense than it does to generate it, a tax on the time of all who care about fact and accuracy
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Huh? That ignores the private cost, presumably around $3. Adding that to even their discounted SCC means *total* social costs exceed $3 by a lot.
Why are we deflating the SCC by the deadweight loss from raising revenue? (Also, since when is $75 "relatively high"?)
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1/3 The Social Cost of Carbon "is not intended to measure the private marginal benefits ... of fossil fuels." Correct! (But not relevant. That's why it's the called the Social *Cost* of Carbon.)
6. Clear writing comes from clear thinking.
7. If readers don’t understand your writing, that’s your fault, not theirs.
This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this -- with 11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them:
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*Subsidizing EV charging stations would be twice as effective as subsidizing EVs.*
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State government appeals to save energy largely failed when broadcast over radio and television, but succeeded via text.
New in #JAERE from Dylan Brewer and Jim Crozier.
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1. Revenue (that's all tariffs, not just carbon tariffs)
2. Protect US industry (again, all tariffs)
3. The US has no domestic carbon price (huh?)
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Year 1) Pass 10-year budget that cuts taxes in yr 1 and raises them in yrs 2-10.
Year 2) Treat yr 1 as baseline, pass new budget that cuts taxes in yr 2 and raises them in yrs 3-11.
Year 3) Treat yr2 as baseline, .... you get the idea.
Problem solved!
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With increased enforcement and lower oil prices, It would be a great time to lower the cap.
"Uncertainty" (my scare quotes) has been wielded rhetorically by opponents of regulation. But one way to reduce regulatory uncertainty is to stop opposing the regulation.
Now Ashley et al. show that regulatory uncertainty can prolong unprofitable investments.
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(See what I did there.)
aka "Betteridge's law"
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Today on VoxDev, Raphael Calel (Georgetown University), Jonathan Colmer (University of Virginia), Antoine Dechezleprêtre (OECD) & Matthieu Glachant (Mines Paris) outline research on India: voxdev.org/topic/energy...