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...trade system is the most practical, cost-effective way for the government to limit carbon emissions, according to a paper recently published by Harvard Kennedy School Professor Robert N. Stavins and University of Manchester Economics Professor Robert W. Hahn...
Their paper concluded that Congress is more likely to pass a cap-and-trade system—in which the government puts a cap on the amount of a pollutant that can be emitted—than a carbon tax, because the cap-and-trade system exhibits the “independence property”—the theoretical and actual ability of a system to keep costs low and environmental performance high...
Stavins said in a recent interview with The Crimson that a cap-and-trade system would be more efficient and less controversial than a carbon tax because limiting the total amount of carbon that corporations emit does not require an equal distribution of pollution limits. He explained that while a carbon tax would be superior in theory, a cap-and-trade system would be more practical when political realities are taken into account...
...academic institution, thus precluding a large number of industries from offering unpaid internships and limiting opportunities for jobseekers. Another worthy of repeal mandates that the employer cannot profit from intern labor. The latter criterion is the most often violated, demonstrating that interns view it as a fair trade to contribute to their employers’ profit margins in exchange for valuable work experience
...investigation concerns bribes allegedly paid as part of the approval process of major construction projects that occurred first while Olmert was mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 until 2003, and afterward when he was Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor. He became Prime Minister in 2006. Chief among the controversial projects was the 1999 development of the luxury Holyland residential towers on a prominent Jerusalem hilltop, which had originally been zoned for a hotel. Prosecutors are now alleging that Messer and Jerusalem's city architect at the time facilitated the approval of the much larger - and, some critics would say, much...