The Green Paradox: A Supply-Side Approach to Global Warming

by Hans-Werner Sinn

Book Overview

A leading economist develops a supply-side approach to fighting climate change that encourages resource owners to leave more of their fossil carbon underground.

The Earth is getting warmer. Yet, as Hans-Werner Sinn points out in this provocative book, the dominant policy approach--which aims to curb consumption of fossil energy--has been ineffective. Despite policy makers' efforts to promote alternative energy, impose emission controls on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262016680
• ISBN13: 9780262016681
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher