Kantians Defy the Economists' Mantra of Uniform Pigovian Emissions Taxes
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- Eichner, Thomas & Pethig, Rüdiger, 2022. "Kantians defy the economists’ mantra of uniform Pigovian emissions taxes," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 200(C).
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Keywords
Pigovian tax; material; moral; Kantian; consumer-type tax;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
- Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2021-01-18 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2021-01-18 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-HPE-2021-01-18 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-PBE-2021-01-18 (Public Economics)
- NEP-PUB-2021-01-18 (Public Finance)
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