[Pen-l] Cap and Trade Discussion

[ehrbar <ehrbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fueled by the discussion of the Lieberman Warner bill, the economic
blog roll is brimming with articles of the pros and cons of cap and
trade versus carbon taxes.  Good entry points into this discussion are
Common Tragedies

http://commontragedies.wordpress.com/category/carbon-tax/

and Rachel's Democracy and Health Newsletter #962, emailed last week,
a web version can be found at

http://www.precaution.org/lib/08/prn_dhn080605.htm

This article points out that even the Congressional Budget Office
has come out in favor of carbon taxes against cap and trade!

By the way, a neat textbook treatment of the issues is the powerpoint
slide show of chapter 5 in Rosen and Gayer's textbook on Public Finance,
which someone posted for his class at
http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~hartman/Econ_130_homepage_files/Econ_130_lectures_files/Lecture05.ppt

Hans.

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