Free exchange | Environmental economics
Taxing the bad stuff
America isn't very good at it
By R.A. | WASHINGTON
ALSO at Ezra Klein's place, Brad Plumer writes an excellent post summarising a new IMF paper on environmental taxation. It includes this telling graph:
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