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Comments on: Reply: Climate change: the heresy of pragmatism http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/07/28/reply-climate-change-the-heresy-of-pragmatism/ The Visible Hand in Economics Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:40:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/07/28/reply-climate-change-the-heresy-of-pragmatism/#comment-1867 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:40:59 +0000 http://tvhe.wordpress.com/?p=703#comment-1867 “We’re just debating how to minimize the cost (and who bears it).”

I 100% agree with you here.

“I suspect delays can be traced to the fact that climate change policy has always been unpopular with sectors or groups that will be big losers.”

Agreed!

]]> By: Barack Obama http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/07/28/reply-climate-change-the-heresy-of-pragmatism/#comment-1866 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:05:06 +0000 http://tvhe.wordpress.com/?p=703#comment-1866 The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We’re all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.NormanMailerNorman Mailer

]]> By: North American Union http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/07/28/reply-climate-change-the-heresy-of-pragmatism/#comment-1865 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:35:03 +0000 http://tvhe.wordpress.com/?p=703#comment-1865 The plain fact is that I am not a fair man and don’t want to hear both sides.HenryLouisMenckenHenry Louis Mencken

]]> By: CPW http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/07/28/reply-climate-change-the-heresy-of-pragmatism/#comment-1864 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:29:57 +0000 http://tvhe.wordpress.com/?p=703#comment-1864 Is “implement a flawed solution now rather than wait for a better policy” really a position that I/S would embrace if the topic was anything other than climate change? The gnashing of teeth is particularly hard to understand because – since we are already a Kyoto signatory – our actual choice of policy has no environmental impact. We’re just debating how to minimize the cost (and who bears it).

Rushing regulatory approaches through seems especially counter-productive in this case because when we introduce the market-based scheme it would become welfare-enhancing to “unregulate” again.

Finally, I can’t say I’m convinced that a bias towards market-solutions is the main reason that climate change policy keeps being delayed. I suspect delays can be traced to the fact that climate change policy has always been unpopular with sectors or groups that will be big losers. For that reason I doubt that a regulatory-based approach would have achieved results any sooner.

]]> By: North Korea http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/07/28/reply-climate-change-the-heresy-of-pragmatism/#comment-1863 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:29:15 +0000 http://tvhe.wordpress.com/?p=703#comment-1863 Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures–in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.AntoinedeSaint-Exup%E9ryAntoine de Saint-Exup?ry

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