The True Price of Carbon

A $40 carbon dioxide price? Try $100, $200, or possibly more.

An Economist’s Guide to Spending Bezos’s Billions on Climate Change

The money would go far in politics, but it will also allow for technological experimentation and will take a fundraising burden off recipients.

Carbon Taxes Alone Aren’t Good Climate Policy

To drive down tomorrow’s CO₂ emissions, governments need to subsidize fossil fuel alternatives, too.

India in the coming ‘climate G2’?

India, not China, will soon be the most significant counterweight to the United States in global climate negotiations.

Why Oil Giants Figured Out Carbon Costs First

Inaugural Risky Climate column

“Ohne Trump keine Thunberg”

Der Standard Interview

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC

NPR Marketplace

Cap and trade has conservative, Republican origins

Declining CO₂ price paths

In contrast to most modeled carbon price paths, our calibration suggests a high "optimal" CO2 price today that is expected to decline over time

PBS Newshour

With Paul Solman

Covid-climate links

My Covid-climate thoughts organized in one place, in reverse chronological order

How to Reset the US Pandemic Response

Whether the problem is COVID-19 or climate change, the market on its own will not produce a sufficient quantity of goods – like therapeutic drugs or environmentally sustainable growth – that benefit society. Capitalizing on America’s private-sector dynamism will require the state to create incentives to produce such “social goods.”

Chronicle of Philanthropy letter: Economics shows need for more action

Letter to the Editor

Foreign Policy: Sorry, Nature Isn’t Returning

Don’t Touch Your Face podcast

franknews: Ignoring Reality

Interview with Tatti Ribeiro

The Leadership Failure That Will Cost Us Everything

If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it is that delaying prudent policymaking does not merely result in higher marginal costs down the road. Rather, it puts us on an entirely different trajectory – one that all too easily can end in catastrophe.

NYU WAGTalks: Climate and Covid

NYU Wagner

How Virus Testing Is Just Like A Carbon Tax

Testing and taxing are important steps in the fights against the pandemic and climate change— and both have their limits.

The Economics of a Green Recovery

McHarg Center, University of Pennsylvania

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