If you could choose how to curb greenhouse gas emissions, would you choose a carbon tax or cap-and-trade? In this post, which first appeared on Views from the Center, we say the economic arguments are pretty finely balanced. (In the next post, we’ll say that the political and practical considerations lean heavily towards cap-and-trade.)
In which Erik Solheim adds himself to the list of people to proclaim that, for the first time in history, we can eradicate poverty.
The Good Country Index (GCI), aiming “to measure what each country on earth contributes to the common good of humanity,” has just been launched by Simon Anholt at TEDsalon in Berlin. This post looks at what it contains.
More pedantry on “the mother of Parliaments”
General rant about the ignorance of car drivers.
If we want to raise the share of national income going to labour, we could start by not taxing labour income more heavily than capital income.
I’m sorry to see The Economist make the lazy mistake of thinking that the phrase “mother of Parliaments” refers to the British Parliament. The phrase was coined by John Bright about England, not Westminster.
Driverless vehicles will be guided by algorithms programmed in advance. How should they weigh up the risks to the lives of other road users and the passengers in the car? A blog post in which Philippa Foot meets Isaac Asimov.
Michael Gove’s determination to liberate children from accidents of birth is hard to reconcile with tougher immigration controls.
CGD Europe’s Humble New Abode