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The authors argue that the recent upsurge in anti-tax sentiment has its roots evolving social conditions and adherence to the laissez faire myth. Content analysis reveals that political anti-tax rhetoric increased in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a time of social distress in the US. This increased political attention provided a rhetorical punctuation whereby a substantial portion of Americans moved toward a much more dogmatic adherence to the laissez faire myth. The result has been to convert the laissez faire myth into a disabling myth that severely limits open discussion of fiscal issues and reduces the options in public finance decisions.

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This paper investigates the role of the COVID-19 pandemic in oil markets, focusing on the great oil price crash in April 2020. Using a 5-variable structural vector autoregression (SVAR) model, the study identifies an oil price shock arising from the pandemic together with supply, demand, and financial market shocks to global oil markets. The results show that a pandemic shock causes a delayed decrease in oil prices. Moreover, financial market conditions that affect financial investment decisions play a significant role in oil price movements. The study also computes the forecast error variance decomposition and finds that the impact of a pandemic shock, financial speculation shock, and aggregate demand shock are crucial in the short run. The findings offer new opportunities for applications in energy research.

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the long-run relationship between green tax and economic growth. Specifically, it utilizes the sign-restrictions structural vector autoregressions (VAR) to examine whether green tax is growth-enhancing or growth-inhibiting. Using data on the Danish economy for the period 1975-2017, the results reveal that green tax shocks trigger opposite movements in non-renewable and renewable energy consumption, and a mild transitory decrease in economic growth. The study also compares green tax shocks in the pre-and post-Carbon tax periods and finds that how the Danish economy experiences green tax shocks has not fundamentally changed since the introduction of Carbon tax in 1992. Taken together, the findings suggest that green tax is effective in increasing reliance on renewable energy while decreasing non-renewable energy consumption without seriously inhibiting economic growth.