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The concept of environmental tax reform is not new and is core to environmental economics, but is it compatible with Modern Monetary Theory? Environmental taxes aim to raise revenues for government, while at the same time discouraging behaviour that damages the environment. Ex...

Unlike most other macroeconomic models, ours (E3ME) includes endogenous money as a core feature (including borrowing by government).  This difference is important because it allows us to best predict outcomes that might be encountered by our clients.  Find out how... We...

It is now widely acknowledged that decarbonisation will not be possible without putting a price on carbon. Some economists (and most modellers outside Cambridge Econometrics) even suggest that a carbon price would be sufficient to meet carbon targets. But in the UK there is a ...

Another light-hearted Christmas-themed blogpost, this time from our Chairman, Richard Lewney.  Robin Crusoe is a national accounts statistician marooned on a desert island.  Man Friday is an economist turned management consultant… On Day 1 Robin Crusoe catches fish ...

An issue that often arises when discussing a transition to electric vehicles is fuel duty revenues and how and whether governments will enforce new taxes to replace falling revenues. The first point to understand here is that this will not be a cliff-edge, with a dramatic £30...