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May 13, 2008
The Harvard economist Greg Mankiw weighs Sen. John McCain’s views on carbon trading against Sen. Barack Obama’s.
“Over time an increasing fraction of permits for emissions could be supplied by auction,” McCain said, “yielding federal revenues that can be put to good use.”
“Not bad,” responds Mankiw, “but … why over time? Why not immediately? And how high would that fraction become?”
Mankiw likes Obama’s support of a cap-and-trade system through “a 100-percent auction.”
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Tammy Horn, aka the Bee Lady, has a plan to sweeten the region's economy by planting beehives on reclaimed mining land.
History professors at Indiana U. are redesigning courses to break through conceptual barriers by focusing on evidence and analysis.
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