James Stock, who was part of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers in 2013–14, asserts that as green energy costs drop, we should shift the emphasis from economy-wide carbon pricing to sectoral policies. He dives into the (at least) three externalities that policies for the energy transition confront: the greenhouse gas externality; the innovation externality; and, in some cases, network (or chicken-and-egg) externalities.
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