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Calculating a Cost/Benefit Ratio for Climate Change Policy
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Calculating a Cost/Benefit Ratio for Climate Change Policy

Knowledge at Wharton·Knowledge at Wharton Staff·about 1 month ago
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Measuring the costs and benefits of the Obama Administration’s latest climate change policies shows a lopsided dollar advantage in favor of action, says Jason Furman, chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors. “The benefits are in the range of billion to billion a year and the costs are in the range of billion or billion a year.” Furman also spoke about the economics of America’s clean energy future at an event hosted by the Penn Wharton Public Policy Initiative . In this Knowledge at Wharton interview, Furman discusses the economics of environmental policies and some more general economic policies he says could help to reverse the problem of wage stagnation. An edited transcript of the conversation appears below: Knowledge at Wharton: The Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, Jason Furman, joins us today to talk about climate change and the administration’s policies for addressing it.…

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