Episode 61: Edwin G. Dolan holds a PhD in economics from Yale University. He has taught in the United States at Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, George Mason University and Gettysburg College. From 1990 to 2001, he taught in Moscow, Russia, where he and his wife founded the American Institute of Business and Economics (AIBEc), an independent, not-for-profit MBA program. After 2001, he taught economics in several European countries, including Central European University in Budapest, the University of Economics in Prague, and the Stockholm School of Economics campus in Riga. He is currently a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center, for which he writes on environment, health care, and social policy. He lives in Northwest Lower Michigan.

This episode's motto: "If the scissors [of supply and demand] aren't cutting emissions fast enough, then you need a carbon tax (via government regulation)."

https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-scissors-are-cutting-carbon-emissions-but-not-fast-enough/

__Links__

Prices without markets or markets without prices? https://medium.com/swlh/prices-without-markets-or-markets-without-prices-5d9809659fbb

The Austrian view of carbon pricing (part 1 of 2)http://archive.economonitor.com/dolanecon/2014/03/31/austrian-environmental-economics-air-pollution-as-a-coordination-problem/

There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch (DZ's review) https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/12/tanstaafl-the-review/

The Bet (Simons vs Ehrlich)

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/08/julian-simon-loses-the-bet/

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2018/04/the-myopia-of-techno-optimists/

Walter Block (episode 5)

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/5-walter-e-block-on-pollution-regulation-anarchy-and-the-state