We’ve long thought that the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) between the major tobacco companies and the attorneys general of 46 states was a bad deal for the rest of us because it gave Big Tobacco the market power to pass on the $200-billion-plus cost to current …
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We’re perpetually dismayed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s alliance with global warming deniers. But the organization is spot-on in its opposition to tax breaks for ethanol fuel, which are set to expire at the end of the year unless Congress puts the taxpayers back on the … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Competitive Enterprise Institute, ethanol, global warming deniers, St. Augustine, Tea Party | Category: Energy, Quick Takes |
 Leave a commentThe Competitive Enterprise Institute goes off the rails occasionally (as in “what climate change?”…), but the organization is right on the mark on the issue of import quotas for sugar. American cane and sugar beet growers, it seems, have lost a bit of their … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Agriculture Department, Brazil, Competitive Enterprise Institute, India, Mexico, sugar quotas, Thailand | Category: International Trade, Quick Takes |
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Professor Dieter Helm (Oxford) is a very fine fly fisherman, and an even better economist. If you haven’t done so, take a look at his new book “The Carbon Crunch: How We Are Getting Climate Change Wrong — and How to Fix It” for a bit of unconventional wisdom. He argues that politicians and the general public have not shown any real interest in addressing climate change. Helm argues that places like Europe should focus on setting a price for carbon that would cover consumption (and not just production), and that fracking could be a good “bridge” technology for reducing consumption of coal. The book is readable and insightful for those interested in the inside track on climate policy. 
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