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Gert Tinggaard Svendsen
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On the wealth of nations: Bourdieuconomics and social capital
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The Politics and Economics of Green Taxation
From being a minor policy issue administered by the less prestigious branches of government departments, pollution control has grown to be an important issue in contemporary societies. Environmental ministers,...
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Designing Green Taxation
Analyses undertaken at the micro, meso and macro-level in Chapters 2, 3 and 4, demonstrate that there are considerable political and institutional constraints to green taxation in economic sectors. This means ...
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Group Mobilization and Rent-Seeking
We start by establishing the first political constraint which determines the actual design of green taxation, namely that of ‘rentseeking’. Rent-seeking is defined as ‘the use of resources in lobbying and ot...
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Designing Permit Trading
Chapter 5 suggested how green taxation could be designed to overcome political opposition. However, it was difficult to find appropriate green tax designs for heterogeneous industries because they would cause ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Political and Economic Scope for Permit Markets in Europe
What kind of design allows society to achieve environmental objectives cost-effectively? In general, economists have not considered political concerns and second-best world solutions in the traditional analysi...
