{"id":2318,"date":"2012-12-28T11:40:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T16:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2012-12-28T11:40:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T16:40:25","slug":"elizabeth-kolbert-paying-for-it-the-new-yorker-december-10-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/elizabeth-kolbert-paying-for-it-the-new-yorker-december-10-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Kolbert, &#8220;Paying for It,&#8221; The New Yorker, December 10, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/images\/2012\/12\/10\/p233\/121210_r22915illu_p233.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"196\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NewYorker.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Question: Is it immoral to impose costs upon others? \u00a0Elizabeth Kolbert write on this and the proposal of a carbon tax. Her piece instructively begins,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s been almost a century since the British economist Arthur Pigou floated the idea that turned his name into an adjective. In \u201cThe Economics of Welfare,\u201d published in 1920, Pigou pointed out that private investments often impose costs on other people. Consider this example: A man walks into a bar. He orders several rounds, downs them, and staggers out. The man has got plastered, the bar owner has got the man\u2019s money, and the public will get stuck with the tab for the cops who have to fish the man out of the gutter<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/comment\/2012\/12\/10\/121210taco_talk_kolbert\">http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/comment\/2012\/12\/10\/121210taco_talk_kolbert<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Is it immoral to impose costs upon others? \u00a0Elizabeth Kolbert write on this and the proposal of a carbon tax. Her piece instructively begins, It\u2019s been almost a century since the British economist Arthur Pigou floated the idea that turned his name into an adjective. In \u201cThe Economics of Welfare,\u201d published in 1920, Pigou [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[143],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-2318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-read","tag-the-new-yorker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-Bo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2320,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/2320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}