Patient Preferences, Intergenerational Equity, and the Precautionary Principle

Patient preferences have a social welfare interpretation consonant with a belief that the society affected by present decisions will last for a very long time. In stochastic settings, these preferences lead to justifications for variants of the precautionary principle.

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Year of publication:	2014-03
Authors:	Khan, Urmee ; Stinchcombe, Maxwell
Institutions:	Department of Economics, University of California-Riverside

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Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 201427 22 pages longPages
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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