IER Economist Murphy Takes on Nordhaus’ Case for a Carbon Tax
June 5, 2008· 4 Comments
IER’s economist, Robert Murphy, takes on Nordhaus’ dubious case for a carbon tax with Rolling the Dice. The Murphy study is currently under submission at a peer-reviewed economics journal.
June 5th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
[...] website is hosting a version of my paper that I recently submitted to an economics journal. (I’m not telling you which one, in case they [...]
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:12 pm
[...] warming assumed by Nordhaus. See IER economist Robert Murphy’s critique of Nordhaus available at: http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2008/06/05/ier-economist-murphy-takes-on-nordhaus-case-for…. However, the point above is that Nordhaus agrees that climate change mitigation policies carry a [...]
January 5th, 2009 at 10:12 am
[...] calls for a carbon tax, rather than the Trojan Horse of a cap & trade program. I am quite skeptical, even if we concede the scientific claims that carbon emissions pose large negative externalities. [...]
January 18th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
[...] I passed around my critique of Nordhaus’ case for a carbon tax, a typical complaint was that I wasn’t a climate scientist, and so I had no business saying [...]