Poverty Offsetting
Harvard Law and Policy Review, Vol. 6, p. 179, 2012
22 Pages Posted: 15 Mar 2012
Date Written: March 1, 2012
Abstract
The market now offers consumers an expanding array of options to offset the harms of their consumption. Travel websites and politicians alike sell the advantages of carbon offsetting. But offsetting options need not be limited to correcting for environmental harm; consumption is also associated with worker exploitation and people struggling with poverty. Individuals can and do respond to such poverty-related harms by altering their consumption decisions and by making voluntary supplemental payments following consumption. This Essay explores the possibility of poverty offsetting. Building upon carbon offsetting’s basic insight — that people should correct for the negative externalities of their consumption — poverty-offsetting institutions would enable individuals to correct for the poverty-related harms associated with their consumption.
Keywords: Offsetting, Consumption, Poverty, Carbon Offsetting, Charity
JEL Classification: D62, D63, I30, D11, D18, D43, K00
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Ezra Rosser (Contact Author)
American University - Washington College of Law ( email )
4300 Nebraska Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016
United States
HOME PAGE: http://www.wcl.american.edu/faculty/
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