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The Green Paradox : A Supply-Side Approach to Global Warming /
A leading economist develops a supply-side approach to fighting climate change that encourages resource owners to leave more of their fossil carbon underground.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
MIT Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Note continued: More than electricity
- A dubious eco-balance sheet
- The BtL hope
- Slash and burn
- One hectare for me!
- Farmers to OPEC!
- The Tortilla Crisis
- The Ratchet Effect
- A tale of carbon and man
- 4. The Neglected Supply Side
- Reckoning without one's host
- The missing regulating screw
- Supply and demand
- How "green" policies shift the demand curve
- Rembrandts vs. cars: The carbon supply
- Carbon leakage: Grabbing from the collection box
- Nature's supply
- How much stays in the air?
- At the mercy of the sheikhs
- What drives the resource owners?
- Greed and sustainability
- Nirvana ethics
- Wrong expectations
- The social norm
- Why extracting more slowly makes the cake bigger
- Why carbon deposits should not be sealed off
- The fear of a coup
- 5. Fighting the Green Paradox
- The impotence of politics
- The Green Paradox
- A bit of theory
- The Green Paradox and carbon leakage.
- Note continued: Will production costs and replacement technologies stop extraction?
- Temporary and permanent price changes
- Paling green
- Super-Kyoto
- Leading by example?
- Source taxes: A supply-side policy
- Carbon tax terrors
- More forests
- Instruments and goals.