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| Author: | Goodin, R.E. |
| Title: | Selling environmental indulgences |
| Journal: | Kyklos
1994 : Social Europe, Supplement 1/94, p. 137-155 |
| Index terms: | GREEN REVOLUTION ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION POLLUTION CONTROL POLLUTION CHARGES |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Why object to 'green taxes' if, as economists insist, they maximise economic efficiency and minimise (unwarranted) environmental damage? Answers are found in analogous objec- tions to the medieval Church's selling indulgence for sin: in both cases, you are selling something that is not yours to sell; selling something that can properly only be given rather than sold; according acts that nonetheless remain wrong more legitimacy than they deserve; or playing favourites, unfairly allowing some to do what none ought to do. The force of these analogies can be felt even by chose valuing the environment for other than purely spiritual reasons. |
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