Repenser l'économie du changement climatique

Michel Damian ()
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Michel Damian: LEPII-EDDEN - équipe EDDEN - LEPII - Laboratoire d'Economie de la Production et de l'Intégration Internationale - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The paper makes a case for rethinking the economics of climate change. It questions the way the problem was conventionally framed and solved through top-down international cooperation and carbon emission permits, taxes and pricing. The paper argues that the on-going industrial and energy transition reflects a paradigmatic shift as compared to neoclassical environmental economics that has framed climate policy since the Rio conference in 1992. On a normative basis, the paper maintains that a carbon tax should not follow a Pigovian rationale. To be feasible such a tax should be of a Marshallian nature, i.e. earmarked, and rather modest at the beginning.

Keywords: ECONOMIE DU CHANGEMENT CLIMATIQUE; TRANSITION ENERGETIQUE; POLITIQUE CLIMATIQUE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-06
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Published in Économie appliquée : archives de l'Institut de science économique appliquée, 2012, LXV (n° 2, " Questions pour Rio+20 "), pp.9-46

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