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Case for a Carbon Tax:

Getting Past Our Hang-ups to Effective Climate Policy
  • ISBN-13: 9781597265331
  • Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
    Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
  • By Shi-Ling Hsu
  • Price: AUD $86.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/11/2011
  • Format: Paperback 244 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Politics & government [JP]
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There's a simple, straightforward way to cut carbon emissions and prevent the most disastrous effects of climate change-and we're rejecting it because of irrational political fears. That's the central argument of The Case for a Carbon Tax, a clear-eyed, sophisticated analysis of climate change policy.
 
Shi-Ling Hsu examines the four major approaches to curbing CO2: cap-and-trade; command and control regulation; government subsidies of alternative energy; and carbon taxes. Weighing the economic, social, administrative, and political merits of each, he demonstrates why a tax is currently the most effective policy. Hsu does not claim that a tax is the perfect or only solution-but that unlike the alternatives, it can be implemented immediately and paired effectively with other approaches.
 
In fact, the only real barrier is psychological. While politicians can present subsidies and cap-and-trade as ""win-win"" solutions, the costs of a tax are immediately apparent. Hsu deftly explores the social and political factors that prevent us from embracing this commonsense approach. And he shows why we must get past our hang-ups if we are to avert a global crisis.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Climate Change Policy Alternatives

Carbon Taxes

Command-and-Control Regulation

Cap-and-Trade

Government Subsidies

Chapter 3: Ten Arguments for a Carbon Tax

One: Economic Efficiency

Two: Excessive Formation of Capital

Three: Non-Interference with Other RegulatoryInstruments or Jurisdictions

Four: Government Is Better at Reducing “Badsa ThanIncreasing “Goodsa

Five: Incentives for Innovation'Price Effects

Six: Incentives for Innovation'Price Breadth

Seven: Administrability

Eight: International Coordination

Nine: Revenue Raising

Ten: Economic Efficiency Revisited: Prices versusQuantities under Uncertainty

Conclusion

Chapter 4: Arguments against a Carbon Tax

Political Economy Considerations

Regressiveness

Ineffectiveness

Crowding Out

Conclusion

Chapter 5: Carbon Tax Psychology

The “Do No Harma Effect

The Identifiability Effect

The Endowment Effect

Conclusion

Chapter 6: Changing Political Fortunes?

Chapter 7: Conclusion

Endnotes

Index

"...Hsu's case is thoroughly documented and eloquently made."
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