Washington State carbon tax (green economy option)
Here's a new 2-pager draft that uses a carbon tax to promote the Green Economy. It's 50% revenue-neutral (focusing on cuts in property taxes, cuts [...]
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New working paper: Impacts of Climate Change on Milk Production in the United States
Update July 15 2014: The paper has been published! You may be able to get a free download here. The paper is Guillaume Mauger, Yoram [...]
Washington State carbon tax options (revenue-neutral and transportation)
Attached are two draft 2-pagers outlining carbon tax options that carbonWA is exploring in Washington State. Stay tuned for more---we're also pursuing health care and [...]
My carbon tax op-ed in the NY Times (and Bob Inglis’s E&EI)
"The Most Sensible Tax of All", July 5, 2012. It's co-authored with economist and law professor Shi-Ling Hsu, author of The Case for a Carbon [...]
Crime and Punishment poems
I just read an obituary of Maurice Sagoff (Robert McG. Thomas, "Maurice Sagoff, 88, a master of terse verses on literature", NY Times, March 29, [...]
Cartoon Macro now available in Japan!
Published by Diamond, available at Amazon Japan and elsewhere. PS. Here's info about the micro book. And, courtesy of the publisher, here's one of my [...]
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