Rejoinder to book review

✍ Scribed by M.K. Jaccard

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 125 KB
• Volume: 32
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0301-4215
• DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2003.11.022

✦ Synopsis

winner), Donner Prize for Policy, and Purvis Prize for Economic Policy), competing against at least 75 other works in each case. The juries for these awards have especially commended the book for ''tackling the key issues in estimating costs and evaluating alternative policies for domestic greenhouse gas reductions''. Nonetheless, Reiner argues that the book is ''unable to pose the key questions that could have altered existing policy discussions'' especially because of its failure to ''delve into (i) the extent to which Canada should look abroad for credits; [and] (ii) the impact on national competitiveness and exports''. We are at a loss to explain how Reiner managed to miss our two price scenarios for international carbon permits and then our domestic cost curve, which allows government to estimate the optimal level of domestic