Reviews for The Design of Climate Policy

The average rating for The Design of Climate Policy based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-09-19 00:00:00 Ulrich Reischel Not sure what to say about this semi-coherent piece of work. Definitely an interesting read as a historical piece. Some of his "natural philosophy" remarks are just ludicrous and patently wrong. He just makes a priori assumptions about quite a few things based on his own personal thinking and some very questionable logical steps. However, the last third of the book is pretty decent, and if such a simple idea was revolutionary at the time or not widely published or revived from the past then historically it is significant. Reading the book you are not going to rack your brain pondering the book. However, it is not terribly long-winded, but only a little overblown at times. Rousseau's thoughts on tyranny and its inevitable end are very similar to Machiavelli's "The Prince". One possibly unique and well-described gem that I read though was the idea that he asserts that many rulers of his era seemed to have forgotten and even the common people may have as well. That is, that people gave a ruler power for the people's benefit and when the ruler no longer serves the people, and instead serves, usually his own or small ruling classes interests, the people have the right to remove the ruler because he is essentially breaching the contract that necessarily must have been implied between the people that are governed and the government, because why would people agree to any contract of subservience other than for this reason. A bit overly reductionistic, but not a bad jumping off point for a more detailed theory.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-10-19 00:00:00 Astig Melemetdjian weird. as philosophy, that is. not unfun to read though.