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Robin Hood Energy was a not-for-profit energy company launched in September 2015 by Nottingham City Council as a competitor to the "big six" energy suppliers in the United Kingdom. The company supplied gas and electricity nationally to homes and businesses until September 2020, when its customer accounts were sold to Centrica, the parent ...
Roger Noll, economist, emeritus professor of economics at Stanford University, fellow and director of the Program in Regulatory Policy at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research [279] William Nordhaus, economist, Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2018 [282]
The Big Six were the United Kingdom's largest retail suppliers of gas and electricity, who dominated the market following liberalisation in the late 1990s. By 2002, six companies – British Gas, EDF Energy, E.ON, RWE npower, Scottish Power and SSE – had emerged from the 15 former incumbent monopoly suppliers (the 14 regional public electricity suppliers and British Gas).
Glenn Russell Dubin (born April 13, 1957) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager and the Principal of Dubin & Co. LP, a private investment company. He is the co-founder of Highbridge Capital Management, an alternative asset management company based in New York City, and a founding board member of the Robin Hood Foundation.
Since 2003 Murphy has become more involved in economic and taxation policy issues. [4] He was a co-founder of the Tax Justice Network. [6] He is the director of Tax Research LLP. [7] However, because Tax Research LLP is a Limited Liability Partnership he is technically the designated member rather than a director. The only other member of Tax ...
Michael Greenstone's research interests include environmental economics, energy economics, public finance, development economics, labour economics, and health economics.; [16] in particular, he is a pioneer of the study of environmental issues in developing countries, an emerging field dubbed "envirodevonomics". [17]
Robin Hood is an English folk hero said to have stolen from the rich to give to the poor. Redistributive taxes have thus long been called Robin Hood taxes. In 2001, the charity War on Want released The Robin Hood Tax, [11] an earlier proposal presenting their case for a currency transaction tax.
Norway introduced a resource rent tax on aquaculture (i.e., salmon and trout farming) in 2023, [5] and resource rent tax on onshore wind energy effective January 1, 2024. [6] [7] [8] In Iceland, a resource rent tax has been placed on fishing industry profits. [9] In Switzerland, there is a resource rent tax on hydropower. [10]