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There Isn’t a Spending Category Called “Deficit Reduction”

[UPDATE below.] David R. Henderson over at EconLog praised my recent critique of a David Frum article on carbon taxes, but David had one quibble with me. I’m not sure if David and I have a genuine disagreement, or if it’s just a matter of him not understanding what I was trying to say. Let […]

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==> Tyler Cowen jumps in on the side (?) of Sumner and Rowe (HT2 Max R.), regarding Cantillon effects. (Here Sumner is much clearer–to Austrian readers–about what his position has been all along.) Gene Callahan makes what seems to be a modest point, but it actually is the equivalent of Luke Skywalker’s shot into the […]

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==> David Beckworth says the Fed isn’t monetizing the debt, and has Tyler Durden destroy something beautiful. (Actually that joke fails on two counts, because it’s not Tyler Durden but a guest blogger, and it wasn’t Brad Pitt but Ed Norton who messed up the pretty boy’s face in the movie.) ==> Mark Spitznagel applies […]

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==> Over at Laissez-Faire I explain my Chevy Chase moment. ==> On carbon taxes, I report you decide. ==> My podcast with “Gadsen Rising.” ==> My podcast on “Patriot’s Lament.” ==> Markets in Everything: An insurance policy for libertarian activists.

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==> Silas Barta wants to keep Steve Landsburg honest on disaster economics. (Incidentally Bryan Caplan recently asked his readers to see if they ever find themselves objecting to unfair arguments used against “the other side,” and say what you will about Silas and me, but we often do just that. However, in both cases that […]

Carbon “Tax Swap” Deals: A Review and Critique

In case you’re wondering what I mean when I talk about my “day job” stuff, here’s a good example: Today IER is releasing my new study [.pdf] with the above title. Here are excerpts from the Executive Summary: ========================= A growing number of academics and policymakers have recommended a revenue-neutral carbon “tax swap” deal, under […]

Carbon Tax Swaps and the “Tax Interaction Effect”

I have the EconLib article this month, on the above. Here’s the introduction: For years, many economists have advocated a tax on the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as a way to correct the negative externality of manmade climate change. More recently, even a growing number of conservative economists have embraced a […]

Revisiting the Economics of Climate Change: Nordhaus, Tol, and Surprising Findings

I have a long post up at MasterResource, revisiting the issues that came up in my earlier response to Nordhaus. If you are interested in climate science, particularly the economics of climate change, I would immodestly recommend that you wait till you have a good 15 minutes and read this thing through. It’s by no […]