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ISBN: 9781459413474-06

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Carbon Pricing

Economists vs. the Public Interest

From: The Big Stall

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Reviews competing economic theories about tackling pollution. Explains Edmund Pigou’s work on "externalities" and neo-liberal ideas. An analysis of the two major policy proposals (Cap and Trade, and Carbon Tax) reveals that both have their origins in neo-liberalism. These are contrasted with regulatory approaches as exemplified by the Clean Air Act(s) from the US and Canada during the early 1970s.

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Donald Gutstein

DONALD GUTSTEIN is a former professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University and co-director of NewsWatch Canada, a media-monitoring project at the school. He is the author of Harperism: How Stephen Harper and his think tank colleagues have transformed Canada as well as four other books on the links between large corporations, politics and the media. He lives in Vancouver.