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Market-based policies work to fight climate change, from India to Jamaica

  • Written by Jason Scorse, Associate Professor, Chair, Director, Middlebury

The economic foundation at the heart of conservative political philosophy is that markets are the best way to allocate the bulk of society’s resources.

That faith in markets explains the Republican Party’s preference for, say, private medical insurance over a government-run American health system. And it informs their push to loosen...

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