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The Free Market Won't Save Us From Climate Change — But It Might HelpCarbon pricing, green bonds, and ESG investing are imperfect tools. But dismissing them entirely misunderstands how economic change actually happens.
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Dr. Elena Vasquez
Economics Columnist
BusinessEconomicsClimate Policy
Dr. Elena Vasquez is an economist and columnist whose work sits at the intersection of markets, policy, and the environment. She holds a doctorate in environmental economics from MIT and spent a decade as a senior researcher at the Brookings Institution before turning to journalism full-time. Her column for The Wilder Report challenges both the left's skepticism of markets and the right's dismissal of climate science, arguing that the most durable solutions will be found where rigorous economics meets honest environmental accounting. She is also the author of two books on carbon pricing.
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