Cap and Trade Is Not a "Market Solution"

06/04/2008 Mises Wire Robert P. Murphy

I explain here. I really don’t understand all the mainstream economists going along with this stuff. Even if you totally believe the IPCC science, how could you trust governments around the world to implement the scheme “properly”?

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