Five myths about carbon pricing

IF 2.1 2区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Oxford Review of Economic Policy Pub Date : 2023-11-22 DOI:10.1093/oxrep/grad042

Gilbert E Metcalf

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Abstract

While carbon pricing, in general, and carbon taxes, in particular, are popular with economists, they are subject to considerable misunderstanding among policy-makers and the public. In this paper I consider and refute five myths about carnbon taxes: (i) that a carbon price will hurt economic growth; (ii) that carbon pricing will kill jobs; (iii) that a carbon tax and cap-and-trade programme have the same economic impacts; (iv) that we can’t achieve carbon reduction targets with a carbon tax; and (v) that carbon pricing is regressive. I then discuss implications for policy-making.

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关于碳定价的五大误区

虽然碳定价，特别是碳税，在经济学家中很受欢迎，但在政策制定者和公众中却存在相当大的误解。在本文中，我考虑并驳斥了关于碳税的五个迷思:(1)碳价将损害经济增长;(ii)碳定价将扼杀就业机会;(iii)碳税和限额与交易计划具有相同的经济影响;(iv)我们无法通过征收碳税实现碳减排目标;(五)碳定价是递减的。然后讨论对政策制定的影响。

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Oxford Review of Economic Policy ECONOMICS-

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12.50

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