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The environmental aspect of “Making People Rich as the Top Priority” in China : a Marxian perspective

Faber, Malte; Petersen, Thomas - 2012

Income inequality in China is severe; measured by the Gini-coefficient it amounted to 0.46 in 2011; wealth distribution is even worse with 0.61. These disparities led to a major shift in emphasis of politics in general and of the Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development by the...

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The environmental Kuznets Curve - a survey of the empirical evidence and of possible causes

Lieb, Christoph Martin - 2003

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Innovation without magic bullets : stock pollution and R&D sequences

Goeschl, Timo; Perino, Grischa - 2006

there is no perfectly clean technology that eventually solves the pollution problem once and for all. New technologies have … stings attached, i.e. each emits a specific stock pollutant. Damages are convex in individual pollution stocks but additive … across stocks, creating gains from diversification. The research and pollution policies are tightly linked in such a setting …

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On backstops and boomerangs : environmental R&D under technological uncertainty

Goeschl, Timo; Perino, Grischa - 2007

the new technology may turn out to generate a new pollution problem. R&D may therefore be optimally undertaken more than … the optimal pollution and R&D policies. The optimal R&D program is strictly sequential and has an endogenous stopping …

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Economic geography and Urban environmental pollution

Quaas, Martin; Lange, Andreas - 2004

This paper studies Krugman's (1991) core-periphery model and extends it to include environmental pollution. We present … local environmental pollution, a third and more realistic type of equilibrium may occur in which most of the manufacturing …

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The environmental Kuznets Curve and flow versus stock pollution - the neglect of future damages

Lieb, Christoph Martin - 2002

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Optimal dynamic scale and structure of a multi-pollution economy

Baumgärtner, Stefan; Jöst, Frank; Winkler, Ralph - 2003

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Decomposing the impact of population growth on environmental deterioration

Gans, Oskar; Jöst, Frank - 2005

The IPAT-model developed by Ehrlich and Holdren is widespread in ecological economics in order to quantify the impact of population growth on environmental deterioration. We comment on this model and extensions proposed by several authors from a theoretical and empirical point of view.

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Environmental and population externalities

Jöst, Frank; Quaas, Martin F. - 2006

In this paper, we investigate the external effects of the parent's decisions on the number of newly born children and the firm's decisions on the amount of polluting emissions that occur in industrial production. We employ an optimal control model which comprises three stock variables...

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Environmental problems and economic development in an endogenous fertility model

Jöst, Frank; Quaas, Martin F.; Schiller, Johannes - 2006

the relationships between population development, economic dynamics and environmental pollution are complex due to various … long-run steady state is optimal that is characterized by a stable pollution stock, and by population and economic growth …

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