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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,...

    Carsten Daugbjerg, Gert Tinggaard Svendsen in Green Taxation in Question (2001)

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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 ...

    Carsten Daugbjerg, Gert Tinggaard Svendsen in Green Taxation in Question (2001)

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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...

    Gert Tinggaard Svendsen in Green Taxation in Question (2001)

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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 ...

    Gert Tinggaard Svendsen in Green Taxation in Question (2001)