Rod Richardson
Clean Capitalist Leadership Council
Co-Founder
Areas of Expertise:
Tax PolicyRod Richardson is President of Grace Richardson Fund, a private foundation that pioneers new free market solutions for critical issues in gridlock. A strategy of collaborative policy innovation led Rod to co-found both the Clean Capitalist Leadership Council, a group of clean capitalists, conservation conservatives and environmental donors lending advice and support in this work, as well as the Clean Capitalist Coalition, a group of think tanks and scholars exploring new laissez-faire policy solutions that reduce tax, trade, regulatory and market barriers to accelerate innovation and deployment for clean free enterprise. One such policy, Clean Tax Cuts, targets tax barriers, seeking the most powerful ways to apply tax-cutting policy leverage to financial leverage, to best accelerate clean capital flows. Clean Free Market policy research expands that exploration to include trade and market based barriers, seeking to mobilize huge global private capital markets by maximizing economic freedoms for clean enterprise. As a columnist for The American Spectator, Rod makes the case that clean capitalism and basic economic freedoms go hand-in-hand, and can best be expanded, together, side by side. These new concepts and proposals have been developed collaboratively by transpartisan expert-level “charrette” working groups and teams, convening, more than 300 scholars and experts to advance these policy design discussions. Since 2016, such policy design discussions have been co-convened by a variety of groups, including: Living Room Conversations; The Jack Kemp Foundation; Rocky Mountain Institute; The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia University; R Street Institute, American Sustainable Business Council, The Nature Conservancy, EarthX, American Renewable Energy Institute, ASU LightWorks, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy; Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Forum; American Council for Capital Formation; Atlas Network, Center for Latin America; and MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (MIT CEEPR).
Recent Posts by Rod Richardson
Recent Comments by Rod Richardson
- "Re principles. Yes, more scientific principals than moral principles... but there is a bit of a moral dimension to the laissez-faire principle. Mora"
Free Market Clean Energy Proposals for the Stimulus and Beyond - "Roger, when I first read your posts, I realized you were a kindred spirit: the kind of guy who will argue with a lamp post. Me too, so I suspected yo"
Free Market Clean Energy Proposals for the Stimulus and Beyond - "I don't know Lynne or Michael personally. I have only read a few of their papers and am a fan, and they work with folks who work with me. But I thin"
Free Market Clean Energy Proposals for the Stimulus and Beyond - "Henry, there are a number of groups in the Clean Capitalist Coalition that have dug into US power market issues around competition and opening up mark"
Free Market Clean Energy Proposals for the Stimulus and Beyond - "Dan, "free markets have caused the biggest market failure in history and may very well cause the collapse of civilization" is overheated, over-the-top"
Free Market Clean Energy Proposals for the Stimulus and Beyond - "I didn't think I needed to spell it out, but actually we seem to agree that there is no such thing as a perfectly free market. If you notice, I speak"
Free Market Clean Energy Proposals for the Stimulus and Beyond - "I couldn't agree more."
Free Market Clean Energy Proposals for the Stimulus and Beyond - "First of all, you are forgetting the loans. Many businesses large and small use and ever prefer loans because of superior flexibility vs bonds. Eve"
Free Market Clean Energy Proposals for the Stimulus and Beyond - "Roger, it is not clear to me what kinds of businesses you have financed recently. But CVBLs are not meant for early stage speculative clean energy st"
Free Market Clean Energy Proposals for the Stimulus and Beyond - "PS -- A final quibble: Carbon taxes or fees are market-based policies (they uses a few market elements), but not free market policy. Free market pol"
Free Market Clean Energy Proposals for the Stimulus and Beyond