Eric Crampton • Oct 13, 2014 •
I was on the CBC's The 180 on Sunday, discussing sugar taxes, fat taxes and paternalism. The audio's at the CBC site.While lots of people can point to expanding waistlines as something they find undesirable, just not liking how other people look isn't ... Read More
Paul Walker • Jan 25, 2013 •
This article from the National Journal argues in favour of a carbon tax: To paraphrase Ronald Reagan paraphrasing Will Rogers, some people around here never met a tax they didn’t dislike. Others have met just one: a carbon tax. A number of the nati... Read More
James Zuccollo • Jan 09, 2013 •
Cory Doctorow has written a thoughtful and interesting article for the Guardian, which argues that pricing externalities will inhibit the creation of public value. …the infectious idea of internalising externalities turns its victims into grasping, would-be rentiers. You translate a document because you need it in two languages. I come along and use those translations [...] … Read More
Eric Crampton • Jan 09, 2013 •
If my lifestyle and leisure choices lead me to remit less to the government in taxes than I would have under alternative scenarios, have I imposed an externality on the State? James Meanwell asks: Eric, care to weigh in on a debate I'm having about t... Read More
Eric Crampton • Dec 04, 2012 •
In my standard classroom account, a smelly person on the bus next to you isn't imposing an externality, or at least not one that can be relevant for policy. You're both in a contract with the bus company through purchase of the ticket. If the bus compa... Read More