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Episode 25: Carbon Tax Aversion -- with Thomas Douenne
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How do beliefs shape and determine our attitudes towards policies? In this episode, Thomas Douenne looks at carbon taxation in the context of the Yellow Vest Movement, and how French people rejected a tax & dividend policy which they assumed would negatively impact their purchasing power.
Working Paper:
“Yellow Vests, Pessimistic Beliefs and Carbon Tax Aversion”, with Adrien Fabre
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20200092&&from=f
Recommendation:
“The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?” (2020) by Michael J. Sandel
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50364458-the-tyranny-of-merit
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