%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Ballet, Jérôme
%T The buffet syndrome, midday menu and terry towels
%D 2007
%L fdi:010037886
%G ENG
%J Ecological Economics
%@ 0921-8009
%K taxation ; responsibility ; buffet syndrome ; crowding out
%M ISI:000244595100002
%N 4
%P 685-687
%R 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.10.006
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010037886
%> https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2007/04/010037886.pdf
%V 60
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X In a recent article, Bazin et al. (Bazin, D., Ballet, J., Touahri, D., 2004. Environmental responsibility versus taxation. Ecological Economics 49 (2), 129-134.) argue that taxation produces a crowding out effect on responsible behaviours. This crowding out effect is linked to the buffet syndrome, e.g. wherein an environmental tax is like a food buffet in that when you pay you could consume as much as you want. This article means to offer a perspective on this syndrome. it shows that this syndrome comes into play only in certain circumstances and that explicit policies may avoid it. in particular, the development of clean goods and technologies may avoid the buffet syndrome.
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