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Chapter 30

Afterword: A Sustainable

Economic and Finance Proposal

Woodrow W. Clark, II
Clark Strategic Partners, Beverly Hills, CA, United States

Chapter Outline
The Problem 573 Feed-in Tariffs 577
Corporate Governance in an Age Carbon Incentive (Tax) 577
of Economic Globalization 575 Master Contracts 577
Political Economy of the State and Solar Company Finance 578
Public Goods Provision 575 Cap and Trade 578
Private and Public Sector Investments (Equity) 579
Intergenerational Responsibility 576 Property Assessed Clean Energy 579
Political Economy of Income and Tax Shifting 579
Wealth Distribution 576 Bank Mortgages: (Long-Term
Human Capability and Economic Transferable Debt) 580
Development 576 Conclusion Now and for Tomorrow 581
Economic Approaches: Overview in References 582
Brief 577 Further Reading 582

THE PROBLEM

California Governor Brown has put forth a “Green Energy Job and Company
Four Year Plan” (June 2010) when he was Attorney General and stated at the
conference in Silicon Valley: “Over the next decade, the market for renewable
energy will triple to more than $2 trillion,” Brown proposed then an eight
“point action plan” ranging from energy efficiency to renewable energy power
generation for buildings and homes.” The key point or bottom line that
Attorney General Brown made a year later as Governor is:

Probably the most significant reason people don’t make their homes more
efficient is the high up-front costs of major efficiency upgrades, even though they
save money in the long run .The State and utilities have to help local
governments, businesses, homeowners finance the costs of efficiency upgrades.

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