re: The mass freakout over Bret Stephen's climate change article on NYT

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Last I checked most of these companies have shareholders and shareholders are not keen on reducing profits simply because they want to be overly altruistic(unless there is a "goodwill" benefit) and internalize costs they produce but aren't currently being forced to. In fact CEO's have been sued by shareholders for far less.

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You've never checked at all, just making assumptions from you own prejudices.

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I'm the type that made it through Micro and Macro econ 101 and passed the test that dealt with various types of market failures and distortions. Seems I am the only one in this conversation to at least get that far.

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Hardly, and even the guy that graduated at the bottom of the class in med school is still called "doctor" by the way.

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There is nothing "out of date" about recognizing when a marketplace has failed to address external costs. Then pointing out how that failure distorts the market and the price of goods.

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It's out of date because you are making garbage assumptions that don't hold up to the reality of today. You think a few classes means anything? You are just repeating some shiny new (to you) concepts and terminology and trying to fit them to a subject you barely have a room temp IQ on. I'm someone who passed somewhat more involved classes in thermodynamics, that's my shtick...