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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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How does globalization affect ecological pressures? : a robust empirical analysis using the Ecological Footprint

Rudolph, Alexandra; Figge, Lukas - 2015

While the relationship between environmental pressures and globalization is often claimed to be unambiguously positive, there is a substantial gap in the literature regarding systematic evidence. We fill this gap by empirically disentangling the nexus between globalization and environmental...

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Responsibility and joint production

Petersen, Thomas; Faber, Malte - 2004

In this paper, we discuss the relationship between responsibility and joint production. Responsibility mirrors our ability to act freely. We can act freely only if we can assume responsibility for our actions and their consequences; the limits of our responsibility are therefore also the limits...

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Verantwortung, Kuppelproduktion und Wissen

Petersen, Thomas; Faber, Malte - 2003

In diesem Aufsatz untersuchen wir die Beziehung von Verantwortung und Kuppelproduktion. Unsere Verantwortung reflektiert unsere Fähigkeit, frei zu handeln. Wir können nur frei handeln, insofern wir für unsere Handlungen und ihre Folgen Verantwortung übernehmen; die Grenzen unserer...

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Verantwortung und das Problem der Kuppelproduktion : Reflexionen über die Grundlagen der Umweltpolitik

Petersen, Thomas; Faber, Malte - 2004

Die modernen Umweltprobleme sind Folgen des menschlichen Handelns. Sie werfen nicht nur die Frage auf, wer für diese Probleme die Verantwortung trägt. In ihrer Komplexität machen es diese Umweltprobleme vielmehr fraglich, ob wir für unsere Eingriffe in die Natur Verantwortung überhaupt...

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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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