Economists often argue that market-based (incentive-based) environmental policy is preferred to so-called Command and Control standards setting.

---- a. Explain the role of emissions taxes and tradable pollution permits in creating socially efficient incentives for production and consumption of environmentally unfriendly economic growth.

---- b. Now, consider the issue of politics. What are the realities of incentive-based environmental policy that make them difficult sells to the voting public? In what ways to incentive-based policy avoid politics? How?