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The 16 pages that link to Carbon tax, each with the reason it gives.

• ExternalityBroader topic: It prices climate damages that emitters otherwise impose on others.

• TaxationBroader topic: It uses a tax price to discourage greenhouse-gas emissions.

• Tax incidenceBroader topic: Its burden can reach households and firms through energy prices and income changes.

• Carbon footprintRelated: A price on emissions can make footprint reductions financially valuable.

• Carbon pricingBroader topic: It sets an explicit emissions price, unlike a market whose permit price fluctuates.

• Pigouvian taxBroader topic: It applies Pigouvian reasoning to climate-related emissions.

• Public financeBroader topic: It illustrates how a revenue instrument can also price an external cost.

• Climate policyBroader topic: It sets a direct price on carbon, unlike a quantity-limited permit system.

• Environmental regulationCompared with: It prices emissions directly rather than setting an emissions cap through permits.

• Social cost of carbonRelated: Setting the tax near estimated marginal climate damages makes emitters face more of the harm they cause.

• Economic policyBroader topic: It uses prices to steer production and consumption toward lower emissions.

• Arthur Cecil PigouBroader topic: It applies Pigouvian reasoning to the climate damage caused by greenhouse-gas emissions.

• William NordhausRelated: Nordhaus has advocated carbon pricing as a way to align private choices with climate costs.

• Economic analysis of climate changeBroader topic: Economic analysis estimates tax levels that reflect climate damages or meet emissions goals.

• Market interventionCompared with: It fixes a price on emissions rather than directly capping their total quantity.

• Yellow vests protestsRelated: A planned increase in fuel taxes helped trigger the first demonstrations.