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But today’s “markets in everything” crowd ignores a class of problems that local incentives can’t solve. Tyler Cowen calls climate change “a problem we are failing to solve.” With other prominent economists he says clean-energy can’t work unless it’s as profitable as unclean energy. Sounds reasonable? Let’s translate: many economists think we can’t save the planet unless it’s profitable. Does that sound prudent? - http://bigthink.com/errors-we-live-by/markets-curing-spontaneous-disorders