What Gernot Wagner thinks about tariffs
Austrian-American climate economist at Columbia Business School. Co-author with Martin Weitzman of Climate Shock (2015) and author of Geoengineering: The Gamble (2021); writes columns for Project Syndicate.
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2 dated positions, 2024, in their own words. Our reading of what Gernot Wagner has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingPunitive tariffs that raise electric vehicle prices and reduce competition are counterproductive.
Their wordsBut a punitive tariff that raises the prices of EVs and reduces competition is counterproductive.
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Our readingA subsidy race combined with stronger carbon pricing efforts is superior to a tariff war.
Their wordsA subsidy race, together with stronger efforts at pricing carbon dioxide emissions, is vastly superior to a tariff war.