Why Carbon Taxes Failed
なぜ炭素税は失敗したのか (AI 翻訳)
Daniel Driscoll
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日本語
本書は炭素税が政治的に失敗した理由を分析。政府が戦略的投資や計画を避け、市場シグナルに過度に依存したことが原因だと主張。成長モデル政策整合性フレームワークを提唱し、既存の経済構造との整合性と代替技術の事前確保が不可欠と論じる。
English
This book analyzes the political failure of carbon taxes, arguing they failed because governments relied on wishful thinking and market signals instead of strategic investment and planning. It proposes the Growth Model Policy Alignment Framework, emphasizing alignment with existing economic structures and pre-planned green alternatives.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本でも炭素税の導入議論があるが、本書の分析は、単なる税制導入ではなく、産業構造や成長戦略との整合性、化石燃料代替への事前投資の重要性を示唆する。日本のGX政策（グリーントランスフォーメーション）の設計に有益な教訓を提供する。
In the global GX context
Globally, carbon taxes remain a key but contentious tool. This book provides a political economy critique, arguing that carbon pricing alone fails without complementary industrial policy and strategic investments. It offers lessons for policymakers under TCFD/ISSB frameworks, where carbon pricing is often assumed but rarely politically sustainable.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Provides a novel political economy framework (Growth Model Policy Alignment) for understanding carbon tax outcomes across countries.
🏢実務担当者:Offers insights for corporate sustainability teams on the political risks of carbon pricing and the need for proactive transition planning.
🏛政策担当者:Delivers critical lessons on why carbon taxes fail and how to design them within a broader industrial strategy to avoid political backlash.
📄 Abstract（原文）
Abstract For decades, carbon taxes reigned as the most important global strategy for decarbonization—a seemingly simple, market-based solution to one of humanity’s greatest challenges. Yet despite the tax’s prominence, our planet is still warming, and carbon taxation has frequently devolved into political spectacle, from the tear-gassed streets of Paris to abandoned proposals languishing in government archives. Why Carbon Taxes Failed interrogates the foundational flaw of carbon tax policymaking. Drawing on global archives and intimate conversations with policymakers and activists, author Daniel Driscoll argues that carbon taxes failed because they relied on a politics of wishful thinking: governments hoped a simple market signal would save them from the unavoidable job of strategic investment, hard choices, and planning for the future with eyes wide open. Advancing The Growth Model Policy Alignment Framework, Driscoll argues that climate is governed less by noble aspirations to decarbonize than by the stubborn politics of history’s balance sheet. Carbon taxes succeed if—and only if—they align with key components of a nation’s existing economic engine and governments secure viable, pre-planned replacements for fossil fuels in critical sectors. Carbon taxes fail when they misalign with national growth strategies and when they penalize instrumentally important growth coalitions without providing green alternatives; in failing, they trigger political conflict, inefficiencies, equity crises, and policy abandonment. Policymakers are playing carbon tax roulette; implementing a blunt policy while ignoring the politics of their nation’s macroeconomic structure. Driscoll’s bracing, necessary analysis moves beyond climate idealism to reveal the hands-on, pragmatic mechanisms of economic transition. Why Carbon Taxes Failed delivers an urgently needed lesson: decarbonization is not a market puzzle to be solved but a new political economy yet to be built.
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- crossref https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197823569.001.0001first seen 2026-06-16 05:42:28
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