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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 389 Climate Change and the Bogus Case for Carbon Taxes

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2015

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Carbon taxes are a free-market way of dealing with climate change and averting disaster, says a prominent policy analyst. Economist Bob Murphy doesn't let him get away with it.

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In a world of Democrats, there will be time for them to make profits.

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Now's not that time.

0:06.4

And Republicans.

0:07.9

I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.

0:12.2

You need a voice of liberty.

0:15.0

Look no further.

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You've found it.

0:18.4

Tom Woods.

0:21.2

Beware, citizen.

0:22.9

You are now departing from the world of allowable opinion.

0:26.9

The Tom Woods Show.

0:33.5

Welcome to the Tom Woods Show, episode 389.

0:37.5

Climate change is our subject for today, but specifically Welcome to the Tom Woods Show, episode 389.

0:47.2

Climate change is our subject for today, but specifically carbon taxes as a public policy response to climate change. Our frequent guest and friend Bob Murphy has been involved in a back and forth with a libertarian slash conservative policy analyst

0:57.1

named Jerry Taylor, who has tried to make a conservative case for a carbon tax. And Bob Murphy is

1:05.5

not buying. So we're going to look at this whole debate, which is very important because if such attacks were to be imposed, well, the consequences would be not very good, to put it mildly.

1:18.3

Bob Murphy, you all know, as a frequent guest of this program, has a blog over at Consultingbyrpm.com.

1:25.7

He holds a PhD in economics from New York University. He's the author of

1:29.7

numerous books, including a free textbook in economics called Lessons for the Young Economist.

1:38.7

He's also the author of two books in the Politically Incorrect Guide series, the politically

1:43.2

incorrect guide to capitalism and the politically incorrect guide to capitalism

1:44.8

and the politically incorrect guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal. Both of those

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