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We have a good idea now of what the so-called Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme is going to look like, after the Government and Opposition hammered out a deal on Tuesday and it was endorsed (barely) by the Liberal Party in
If the tax structure from early last century prevailed today, we would have to raise $40 billion from excise and $230 billion from tariffs to meet today’s revenue demand. At that rate the excise on a schooner of beer would
Apparently today is Blog Action Day for Climate Change and I thought I’d throw it open to my wonderful blog readers.
Strange weather in Australia recently: record high winter temperatures, bushfires in spring, hail the size of cricket balls overnight and we woke this morning to an apocalyptic orange glow in Sydney.Meanwhile our Prime Minister is at the UN for climate
I remember reading a nice exposition of the efficient markets hypothesis on Andrew Leigh’s blog a while back:So if we believe shoppers are as rational as traders (why not?), then there should be a parallel efficient supermarkets hypothesis. The efficient
The main difference between a carbon tax (emissions tax) and an emissions trading scheme is this. With a carbon tax, the price of emitting a unit of greenhouse gases is fixed but the total level of emissions is unknown. With
Yes, those $900 cheques from Uncle Kevin can kill. That’s the finding of a new study in the Bulletin on Aging and Health:Many studies find that households increase their consumption after the receipt of expected income payments, a result
