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428. The Simple Economics of Saving the Amazon Rain Forest

Freakonomics Radio

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The Social Cost of Carbon

A ninety degree day in india will kill twenty times as many people as a dozen u s. The social cost of carbon is fifty dollars per ton of c o two. Greenstone's hope was that putting a price on carbon and insuring that that price had legitimacy would lead to more thoughtful policy. Although this hasn't been a hundred per cent successful....

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