Marginal Revolution on green jobs:
To be sure, there are very real benefits from limiting climate change. But if it takes more jobs to produce "green energy," that is a net cost to the economy, not a benefit.
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October 19, 2009
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Posted by John Whitehead on October 19, 2009 at 09:01 AM in Climate Change, Macroeconomics | Permalink
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