Redealing the cards: How an eco-industry modifies the political economy of environmental taxes

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 295-315

  Canton, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eco industry; Environmental taxation; Lobbies; Political economy

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PUBLIC POLICY; TAXATION;

ECO-INDUSTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL TAXATION; LOBBIES; POLITICAL ECONOMY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL TAX; POLITICAL ECONOMY;

EID: 44649086434     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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