Type: School event

Professor Barry Rabe Book Launch and Alumni Networking Happy Hour

Date & time

Apr 24, 2018, 3:00-4:00 pm EDT

Location

Wilson Center - Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20004

The Ford School Alumni Board invites you to read Professor Barry Rabe’s new book, Can We Price Carbon?, and participate in an opportunity or two to chat, discuss, and engage with Professor Rabe and your fellow alums about the book.

Book Launch: Can We Price Carbon?
Attend a book launch discussion with Barry Rabe on pricing carbon
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Wilson Center - Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20004
RSVP here.

*REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR ENTRANCE INTO THE WILSON CENTER.

Networking Happy Hour with Barry Rabe
Chat with Professor Rabe about his new book and catch-up with Ford School friends (food and beverages available for purchase)
April 24, 2018
5:30-7:00 p.m.
Proper 21
1319 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004

RSVP here.

Professor Rabe’s book is available for purchase for $30 through MIT Press and Amazon.

 

About the book

Climate change, economists generally agree, is best addressed by putting a price on the carbon content of fossil fuels—by taxing carbon, by cap-and-trade systems, or other methods. But what about the politics of carbon pricing? Do political realities render carbon pricing impracticable?

In this book, Barry Rabe offers the first major political science analysis of the feasibility and sustainability of carbon pricing, drawing upon a series of real-world attempts to price carbon over the last two decades in North America, Europe, and Asia.

About the Author

Barry Rabe is J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Environmental Policy at the University of Michigan, where his primary appointment is in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He also directs the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy at the Ford School and was a Public Policy Scholar for the Wilson Center's Canada Institute in 2015.