Why Carbon Taxes Failed

Author/Contributor(s):	Driscoll, Daniel
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	08/17/2026
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

For decades, carbon taxes reigned as the most important global strategy for decarbonization--a seemingly simple, market-based solution to one of humanity's greatest challenges. Yet despite the tax's prominence, our planet is still warming, and carbon taxation has frequently devolved into political spectacle, from the tear-gassed streets of Paris to abandoned proposals languishing in government archives. Why Carbon Taxes Failed interrogates the foundational flaw of carbon tax policymaking.