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[Environmental Economics] I don’t especially mean to pick on [Robert] Samuelson, but this column exemplifies a strange thing about the climate change debate. Opponents of a policy change generally believe that market economies are wonderful things, able to adapt to just about anything ”” anything, that is, except a government policy that puts a price on greenhouse gas emissions.

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