Climate change policy
Subtitle: challenging the activists
By: edited by Colin Robinson
Series: Readings -- 62; IEA readings -- 62.
Publisher: Institute of Economic Affairs
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9780255365956
Subjects: Climatic changes; Government policy; Economic aspects; Social aspects
Description: The authors looks in detail at a number of the underlying assumptions of policy activists and challenges the concensus that wide-ranging government intervention is necessary to combat the effects of climate change.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Climate change and the market economy: introduction / Colin Robinson; title: 2. Global alarmism / Russell Lewis; title: 3. Climate change, centralised action and markets / Colin Robinson; title: 4. Governments and climate change issues: questioning a consensus / David Henderson; title: 5. Weighing the present against the future: the choice, and use, of rates of discount in the analysis of climate change / Ian Byatt; title: 6. Climate change, religion and human freedom / Alan Peacock; title: 7. Which policy to address climate change? / Julian Morris.