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I'm with the majority of economists who say "tax carbon". Still complex technically and politically, but more effective in solving the problem.

karaterobot 5y ago
Clarification question: when you say you're with the majority of economists who say "tax carbon", are you implying that the majority of economists conclude you should tax carbon in some form? Or are you saying that you agree with most of the economists who do, whether or not they are a majority?
- intrasight 5y ago
  I am implying that the majority of economists conclude you should tax carbon in some form. I am in the minority of non-economists who agree with that consensus.
peder 5y ago
Unless govts become addicted to carbon tax revenue, in which case they may allow the same level of carbon emissions anyway.
- eutropia 5y ago
  avoid the addiction by turning it directly into a citizen’s dividend
  - kspacewalk2 5y ago
    This is what Canada is doing. Equal rebates for everyone - use less and you get a subsidy, use more and you're the one doing the subsidizing. Now of course Canada's carbon tax is tiny, but there's probably some behavioural economics rationale behind the idea that even a tiny cost can have outsized impact on behaviour.
    - transcriptase 5y ago
      Rebates for people in certain provinces. Others have implemented a cap-and-trade shell game where the residents receive nothing but they still experience rising prices because of costs to nation-wide businesses being passed on either way.
      - kspacewalk2 5y ago
        Shamefully, I've committed the cardinal sin of people from my province: forgetting the other 60% of my countrymen and forgetting that things do vary between provinces.
- kspacewalk2 5y ago
  The more you tax something, the less of it you get. Imposing a non-zero cost on carbon will always be strictly better at reducing carbon emissions than imposing a zero cost on it. How effective it is depends on how big a tax it is, of course, but usually governments addicted to a tax tend to increase said tax, which in this case makes it better, since it will disincentivize emissions even more.
  - dont__panic 5y ago
    Curious, can you link to any reading on this subject? The canonical high-tax situation I think of is income tax in NYS and CA, and it seems that has only pushed prices and incomes UP, rather than down. But maybe it works differently for income tax because physical work locations are not truly competitive across location and most folks have visas, schools, family, friends, etc. pinning them to a location and reducing flexibility.
    - thecage411 5y ago
      What is the basis for the claim that income tax in NYS and CA pushed prices and income up? This seems extremely unlikely, unless you are looking at pretax income or something.
- smnrchrds 5y ago
  Canada's "carbon pricing" (the government tries to avoid the word "tax" due to its negative connotations) is designed to be almost revenue-neutral to avoid this exact problem. 90% of the money is rebated directly to the people. The other 10% is used to fund green projects. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/taxes/article-is-federal-carbon-pricing-really-revenue-neutral/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/t...
  - JacobThreeThree 5y ago
    >Those payments mean that around 80 per cent of households receive a payment that more than covers annual carbon costs; the other 20 per cent are higher-income households that have bigger carbon bills, and so end up being out of pocket. This claim in the article is directly contradicted by the Canadian government. >Indeed, most households will see a net loss resulting from federal carbon pricing under the HEHE plan in 2030-31 (Table 3-2). That is, their overall costs—which now include the federal levy and GST paid (fiscal impact) and lower employment and investment income (economic impact)—exceed the rebate and the induced reduction in personal income taxes arising from the loss in income. https://www.pbo-dpb.gc.ca/en/blog/news/RP-2122-032-S--distributional-analysis-federal-carbon-pricing-under-healthy-environment-healthy-economy--une-analyse-distributive-tarification-federale-carbone-dans-cadre-plan-un-environnement-sain-une-eco https://www.pbo-dpb.gc.ca/en/blog/news/RP-2122-032-S--distri...
    - kitkat_new 5y ago
      I think the former is more likely to be true. If 100% of the money went back, you'd get back equal (or more) what you paid, if you are responsible for the average (or less of the same) of CO2 production per citizen. Since there are many more poor people than there are rich people which are responsible for disproportional much more emission, the people below the average are the majority Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/04/carbon-footprint-gap-between-rich-poor-expanding-study https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/04/carbon-f... Only paying back 90% generates a small shift into the other direction though
- rpastuszak 5y ago
  At this stage I'm starting to think that we'll need either: - a drastic societal change or, - stumble upon an ancient alien artefact progressing our technology to the point where coal becomes useless (digging a giant hole in my backyard with the hope of finding a Stargate whilst writing this comment) Edit: morbid humour and sarcasm aside, the sibling comments provide some context on why taxing carbon might actually work
fallingfrog 5y ago
The problem is that we can't seem to tax anything from companies with more than a certain level of resources, since they can just use shell corporations and loopholes to avoid them.
dTal 5y ago
I think the key insight that's missing in these discussions is we need to tax carbon at the point of extraction, not at the point of consumption. We need to make mines and wells unsustainably expensive to operate. If people really need oil, they'll find ways to manufacture it more cheaply from biowaste. The trouble is that this is a Hard Problem because a huge fraction of the world's carbon is extracted in or by countries whose geopolitical standing would be crushed by this. But unless we do this, the same amount of carbon will ultimately be extracted and subsequently burned by somebody. (Also when push comes to shove nobody actually gives a shit about any of this, and any politician who deliberately does anything to raise fuel prices will find their head on a pike)
- intrasight 5y ago
  Carbon is a global problem indeed. The most global I would say. So clearly we can't have such a tax be only on local production. Makes me wonder if Bitcoin could play a role.
  - tombert 5y ago
    Ok, I'll bite...how exactly does this have anything to do with bitcoin?
    - intrasight 5y ago
      I don't. Only connection is that they are both global problems ;)
- afarrell 5y ago
  It would need to be at the point of extraction or importation. Then you'd need tax treaties with countries who are adopting similar policies.
- namdnay 5y ago
  why? we tax cigarettes at the point of consumption and that has worked fine.
rgrieselhuber 5y ago
I think it pays to be more specific. Carbon is a generic term that can include all carbon-based lifeforms, including humans. Also, taxing normal people for CO2 emissions just gives more money to the people who designed these systems in the first place.
- intrasight 5y ago
  I should get a tax credit - for being mostly sequestered carbon ;)
- allemagne 5y ago
  If you tax CO2 emissions by everyone, and then distribute the money equally among the population, normal people end up with more money afterwards because they tend to emit less CO2 than rich people. It is also better at reducing emissions, because then less CO2-intensive options become cheaper than the alternative.
  - rgrieselhuber 5y ago
    And who will be in charge of making sure that happens?
    - allemagne 5y ago
      Sounds like you have a great method of shooting down ideas based on something besides their own merits.
      - rgrieselhuber 5y ago
        It’s just a simple question. If we’re going to add more to the tax burden with the promise that the money then be equally distributed, it’s fair to wonder who would be in charge of making sure it’s actually done correctly.
    - imtringued 5y ago
      Your complaint is valid. Politicians should implement the dividend first and then start taxing to align incentives.
willcipriano 5y ago
The political problem is the hard part. People hear tax carbon and think "finally, those big SUVs and trucks I hate will be taxed!" and don't think "my annual international travel will become unaffordable" but that is more likely the outcome if you tax all carbon equally. The reality is people want to tax other peoples carbon and that's more like class/urban vs rural warfare than anything to do with the environment. For me the pragmatic approach is to assume that the third world isn't going to become carbon neutral anytime soon so we are better off preparing for the inevitability of climate change rather than trying to prevent it. Sadly things like large scale geoengineering projects, genetic modification of local flora to support the new climate and other pragmatic measures aren't palatable to the crowd most worried about climate change.
- intrasight 5y ago
  My belief is the same. But I also believe that geo-engineering projects will become palatable when weighed against the alternatives.
- NumberWangMan 5y ago
  Isn't it a false dichotomy? To say that we have to prepare rather than prevent? I don't think there's a fixed budget for action here -- while you can say that to some degree, resources uses for prevention would take away from preparing, and vice versa, it's far from a 100% tradeoff. If we completely stopped doing anything to prevent climate change, most of that saved effort would not therefore go into preparing for the effects, it would just be spent on other things. And international travel becoming more expensive is probably true. To the degree that international travel is emissions-heavy, it needs to slow down and stop. But if you change the markets, other things may change. We may shift more to slower style travel like energy-efficient airship cruises powered by hydrogen, or invest heavily into ethanol to the point where airline travel becomes less expensive again. And maybe I'm wrong, and it will never again be as cheap as it was in the era of fossil fuels. But we have to get to carbon neutral -- if that comes earlier because we invent efficient carbon capture, great, but I really think that ending our use of fossil fuels is going to be vital. And maybe I'm weird, but I am perfectly happy with my own carbon use being taxed to solve this problem. I really don't want it to be a class warfare issue -- we absolutely should do what we can to make it easier on people who will be hit the hardest, those with low income who have jobs that require a lot of car travel, for example.
em500 5y ago
Here's the economic argument against, from conservative economist John Cochrane (try to check the tribalism and focus on the arguments), who used to be a proponent of carbon taxes. The standard vision in policy discussions assumes infinite substitutability. As soon as the cost of clean energy is lower than the cost of carbon-emitting energy, everyone substitutes completely to the latter and the oil and coal stay in the ground. This is the key question. What the graphs make clear is that the majority of carbon must stay in the ground (or go back there) if we want to avoid a large temperature rise. (Again, I do not quibble with the climate side of the models here. Whether the large temperature rise actually hurts GDP is a separate issue, which I'll return to in the next post.) But as long as the elasticity of substitution is finite, as here, then the carbon comes out of the ground. As you use less and less, the remaining uses become more and more valuable, so it's worth it, privately and to society, to keep using it although at lower scale. This follows from a model that implies that even extremely high carbon taxes will only post-pone 4 degrees temperature rise by 50 years or so. So I learn from this that a key focus for R&D is not so much on lowering the cost of alternatives, but increasing their substitutability for fossil fuels. Just because the cost of solar cells is plummeting does us little good. We need to increase their substitutability. This consideration once again points to nuclear and carbon capture and storage as really important technologies. We're really talking about how to replace coal-fired base-load electric plants in parts of the world that badly need electricity. Nuclear and capture and storage, though they might not be the least expensive, seem to offer much better substitutability options. That both are forbidden topics in climate debates is sad. Substitution also involves other large carbon emitters. It's hard to make steel and concrete without emitting lots of carbon. This thought emphasizes a point that Bjorn Lomborg hammered away on in many different ways during a previous presentation: Simply making carbon more expensive will not work. https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2021/07/rossi-hansberg-on-effects-of-carbon-tax.html https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2021/07/rossi-hansberg-on...
- intrasight 5y ago
  I do agree with John Cochrane about substitutability. And that's the transition to electric transport is so important.
- bryanlarsen 5y ago
EcoMonkey 5y ago
Yale's Climate Opinion Maps[0] would suggest that more Americans than not are with the majority of economists, also. It gets less complex politically when you pair it with carbon dividends, which return the revenue back to households. It's also fun to compare the effectiveness of pricing carbon with other solutions using En-ROADS [1], built by MIT and Climate Interactive. However, this is a national policy thing that requires our direct participation in politics. Our elected officials need to be hearing about this from an increasing number of citizens and, frankly, be put into a position of worrying about their re-election chances if they don't support it (and other robust climate policy). [0] https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us/ https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/yc... (look for "Require fossil fuel companies to pay a carbon tax") [1] https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.html?v=22.4.0 https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.html?v=22.4...
jollybean 5y ago
Help me with this. Why not just tax the fuel? Measuring carbon emissions has to be a pain. But we know pretty much what emits carbon, it's the gas or oil. Pick a spot in the carbon value chain that's closer to the source and tax that. It's a bit crude, but maybe more accurate than measuring emissions.
- wmf 5y ago
  Yes, this is the way.
Hjfrf 5y ago
Maybe it would be simpler at an international level rather than for individual companies? E.g. based on last year's co2 vs rolling 5 years average, calculated by weather satellites rather than self-reported. I've got no idea how gdp would be taken into account though. Enclaves and disputed borders are also less clear.
paganel 5y ago
> I'm with the majority of economists If the majority of economists really do say that then I guess the only solution is to not tax carbon, or, at the very least, to not do what a "majority of dismal scientists" suggest. Over here in Europe we're still feeling the political and societal effects of the austerity measures introduced after 2008-2010, measures which were strongly supported by the majority of economists back then.

karaterobot 5y ago

Clarification question: when you say you're with the majority of economists who say "tax carbon", are you implying that the majority of economists conclude you should tax carbon in some form? Or are you saying that you agree with most of the economists who do, whether or not they are a majority?

intrasight 5y ago
I am implying that the majority of economists conclude you should tax carbon in some form. I am in the minority of non-economists who agree with that consensus.

peder 5y ago

Unless govts become addicted to carbon tax revenue, in which case they may allow the same level of carbon emissions anyway.

eutropia 5y ago
avoid the addiction by turning it directly into a citizen’s dividend
- kspacewalk2 5y ago
  This is what Canada is doing. Equal rebates for everyone - use less and you get a subsidy, use more and you're the one doing the subsidizing. Now of course Canada's carbon tax is tiny, but there's probably some behavioural economics rationale behind the idea that even a tiny cost can have outsized impact on behaviour.
  - transcriptase 5y ago
    Rebates for people in certain provinces. Others have implemented a cap-and-trade shell game where the residents receive nothing but they still experience rising prices because of costs to nation-wide businesses being passed on either way.
    - kspacewalk2 5y ago
      Shamefully, I've committed the cardinal sin of people from my province: forgetting the other 60% of my countrymen and forgetting that things do vary between provinces.
kspacewalk2 5y ago
The more you tax something, the less of it you get. Imposing a non-zero cost on carbon will always be strictly better at reducing carbon emissions than imposing a zero cost on it. How effective it is depends on how big a tax it is, of course, but usually governments addicted to a tax tend to increase said tax, which in this case makes it better, since it will disincentivize emissions even more.
- dont__panic 5y ago
  Curious, can you link to any reading on this subject? The canonical high-tax situation I think of is income tax in NYS and CA, and it seems that has only pushed prices and incomes UP, rather than down. But maybe it works differently for income tax because physical work locations are not truly competitive across location and most folks have visas, schools, family, friends, etc. pinning them to a location and reducing flexibility.
  - thecage411 5y ago
    What is the basis for the claim that income tax in NYS and CA pushed prices and income up? This seems extremely unlikely, unless you are looking at pretax income or something.
smnrchrds 5y ago
Canada's "carbon pricing" (the government tries to avoid the word "tax" due to its negative connotations) is designed to be almost revenue-neutral to avoid this exact problem. 90% of the money is rebated directly to the people. The other 10% is used to fund green projects. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/taxes/article-is-federal-carbon-pricing-really-revenue-neutral/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/t...
- JacobThreeThree 5y ago
  >Those payments mean that around 80 per cent of households receive a payment that more than covers annual carbon costs; the other 20 per cent are higher-income households that have bigger carbon bills, and so end up being out of pocket. This claim in the article is directly contradicted by the Canadian government. >Indeed, most households will see a net loss resulting from federal carbon pricing under the HEHE plan in 2030-31 (Table 3-2). That is, their overall costs—which now include the federal levy and GST paid (fiscal impact) and lower employment and investment income (economic impact)—exceed the rebate and the induced reduction in personal income taxes arising from the loss in income. https://www.pbo-dpb.gc.ca/en/blog/news/RP-2122-032-S--distributional-analysis-federal-carbon-pricing-under-healthy-environment-healthy-economy--une-analyse-distributive-tarification-federale-carbone-dans-cadre-plan-un-environnement-sain-une-eco https://www.pbo-dpb.gc.ca/en/blog/news/RP-2122-032-S--distri...
  - kitkat_new 5y ago
    I think the former is more likely to be true. If 100% of the money went back, you'd get back equal (or more) what you paid, if you are responsible for the average (or less of the same) of CO2 production per citizen. Since there are many more poor people than there are rich people which are responsible for disproportional much more emission, the people below the average are the majority Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/04/carbon-footprint-gap-between-rich-poor-expanding-study https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/04/carbon-f... Only paying back 90% generates a small shift into the other direction though
rpastuszak 5y ago
At this stage I'm starting to think that we'll need either: - a drastic societal change or, - stumble upon an ancient alien artefact progressing our technology to the point where coal becomes useless (digging a giant hole in my backyard with the hope of finding a Stargate whilst writing this comment) Edit: morbid humour and sarcasm aside, the sibling comments provide some context on why taxing carbon might actually work

fallingfrog 5y ago

The problem is that we can't seem to tax anything from companies with more than a certain level of resources, since they can just use shell corporations and loopholes to avoid them.

dTal 5y ago

I think the key insight that's missing in these discussions is we need to tax carbon at the point of extraction, not at the point of consumption. We need to make mines and wells unsustainably expensive to operate. If people really need oil, they'll find ways to manufacture it more cheaply from biowaste. The trouble is that this is a Hard Problem because a huge fraction of the world's carbon is extracted in or by countries whose geopolitical standing would be crushed by this. But unless we do this, the same amount of carbon will ultimately be extracted and subsequently burned by somebody. (Also when push comes to shove nobody actually gives a shit about any of this, and any politician who deliberately does anything to raise fuel prices will find their head on a pike)

intrasight 5y ago
Carbon is a global problem indeed. The most global I would say. So clearly we can't have such a tax be only on local production. Makes me wonder if Bitcoin could play a role.
- tombert 5y ago
  Ok, I'll bite...how exactly does this have anything to do with bitcoin?
  - intrasight 5y ago
    I don't. Only connection is that they are both global problems ;)
afarrell 5y ago
It would need to be at the point of extraction or importation. Then you'd need tax treaties with countries who are adopting similar policies.
namdnay 5y ago
why? we tax cigarettes at the point of consumption and that has worked fine.

rgrieselhuber 5y ago

I think it pays to be more specific. Carbon is a generic term that can include all carbon-based lifeforms, including humans. Also, taxing normal people for CO2 emissions just gives more money to the people who designed these systems in the first place.

intrasight 5y ago
I should get a tax credit - for being mostly sequestered carbon ;)
allemagne 5y ago
If you tax CO2 emissions by everyone, and then distribute the money equally among the population, normal people end up with more money afterwards because they tend to emit less CO2 than rich people. It is also better at reducing emissions, because then less CO2-intensive options become cheaper than the alternative.
- rgrieselhuber 5y ago
  And who will be in charge of making sure that happens?
  - allemagne 5y ago
    Sounds like you have a great method of shooting down ideas based on something besides their own merits.
    - rgrieselhuber 5y ago
      It’s just a simple question. If we’re going to add more to the tax burden with the promise that the money then be equally distributed, it’s fair to wonder who would be in charge of making sure it’s actually done correctly.
  - imtringued 5y ago
    Your complaint is valid. Politicians should implement the dividend first and then start taxing to align incentives.

willcipriano 5y ago

The political problem is the hard part. People hear tax carbon and think "finally, those big SUVs and trucks I hate will be taxed!" and don't think "my annual international travel will become unaffordable" but that is more likely the outcome if you tax all carbon equally. The reality is people want to tax other peoples carbon and that's more like class/urban vs rural warfare than anything to do with the environment. For me the pragmatic approach is to assume that the third world isn't going to become carbon neutral anytime soon so we are better off preparing for the inevitability of climate change rather than trying to prevent it. Sadly things like large scale geoengineering projects, genetic modification of local flora to support the new climate and other pragmatic measures aren't palatable to the crowd most worried about climate change.

intrasight 5y ago
My belief is the same. But I also believe that geo-engineering projects will become palatable when weighed against the alternatives.
NumberWangMan 5y ago
Isn't it a false dichotomy? To say that we have to prepare rather than prevent? I don't think there's a fixed budget for action here -- while you can say that to some degree, resources uses for prevention would take away from preparing, and vice versa, it's far from a 100% tradeoff. If we completely stopped doing anything to prevent climate change, most of that saved effort would not therefore go into preparing for the effects, it would just be spent on other things. And international travel becoming more expensive is probably true. To the degree that international travel is emissions-heavy, it needs to slow down and stop. But if you change the markets, other things may change. We may shift more to slower style travel like energy-efficient airship cruises powered by hydrogen, or invest heavily into ethanol to the point where airline travel becomes less expensive again. And maybe I'm wrong, and it will never again be as cheap as it was in the era of fossil fuels. But we have to get to carbon neutral -- if that comes earlier because we invent efficient carbon capture, great, but I really think that ending our use of fossil fuels is going to be vital. And maybe I'm weird, but I am perfectly happy with my own carbon use being taxed to solve this problem. I really don't want it to be a class warfare issue -- we absolutely should do what we can to make it easier on people who will be hit the hardest, those with low income who have jobs that require a lot of car travel, for example.

em500 5y ago

Here's the economic argument against, from conservative economist John Cochrane (try to check the tribalism and focus on the arguments), who used to be a proponent of carbon taxes. The standard vision in policy discussions assumes infinite substitutability. As soon as the cost of clean energy is lower than the cost of carbon-emitting energy, everyone substitutes completely to the latter and the oil and coal stay in the ground. This is the key question. What the graphs make clear is that the majority of carbon must stay in the ground (or go back there) if we want to avoid a large temperature rise. (Again, I do not quibble with the climate side of the models here. Whether the large temperature rise actually hurts GDP is a separate issue, which I'll return to in the next post.) But as long as the elasticity of substitution is finite, as here, then the carbon comes out of the ground. As you use less and less, the remaining uses become more and more valuable, so it's worth it, privately and to society, to keep using it although at lower scale. This follows from a model that implies that even extremely high carbon taxes will only post-pone 4 degrees temperature rise by 50 years or so. So I learn from this that a key focus for R&D is not so much on lowering the cost of alternatives, but increasing their substitutability for fossil fuels. Just because the cost of solar cells is plummeting does us little good. We need to increase their substitutability. This consideration once again points to nuclear and carbon capture and storage as really important technologies. We're really talking about how to replace coal-fired base-load electric plants in parts of the world that badly need electricity. Nuclear and capture and storage, though they might not be the least expensive, seem to offer much better substitutability options. That both are forbidden topics in climate debates is sad. Substitution also involves other large carbon emitters. It's hard to make steel and concrete without emitting lots of carbon. This thought emphasizes a point that Bjorn Lomborg hammered away on in many different ways during a previous presentation: Simply making carbon more expensive will not work. https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2021/07/rossi-hansberg-on-effects-of-carbon-tax.html https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2021/07/rossi-hansberg-on...

intrasight 5y ago
I do agree with John Cochrane about substitutability. And that's the transition to electric transport is so important.
bryanlarsen 5y ago

EcoMonkey 5y ago

Yale's Climate Opinion Maps[0] would suggest that more Americans than not are with the majority of economists, also. It gets less complex politically when you pair it with carbon dividends, which return the revenue back to households. It's also fun to compare the effectiveness of pricing carbon with other solutions using En-ROADS [1], built by MIT and Climate Interactive. However, this is a national policy thing that requires our direct participation in politics. Our elected officials need to be hearing about this from an increasing number of citizens and, frankly, be put into a position of worrying about their re-election chances if they don't support it (and other robust climate policy). [0] https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us/ https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/yc... (look for "Require fossil fuel companies to pay a carbon tax") [1] https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.html?v=22.4.0 https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.html?v=22.4...

jollybean 5y ago

Help me with this. Why not just tax the fuel? Measuring carbon emissions has to be a pain. But we know pretty much what emits carbon, it's the gas or oil. Pick a spot in the carbon value chain that's closer to the source and tax that. It's a bit crude, but maybe more accurate than measuring emissions.

wmf 5y ago
Yes, this is the way.

Hjfrf 5y ago

Maybe it would be simpler at an international level rather than for individual companies? E.g. based on last year's co2 vs rolling 5 years average, calculated by weather satellites rather than self-reported. I've got no idea how gdp would be taken into account though. Enclaves and disputed borders are also less clear.

paganel 5y ago

> I'm with the majority of economists If the majority of economists really do say that then I guess the only solution is to not tax carbon, or, at the very least, to not do what a "majority of dismal scientists" suggest. Over here in Europe we're still feeling the political and societal effects of the austerity measures introduced after 2008-2010, measures which were strongly supported by the majority of economists back then.