of low emissions compatible with sustainable levels of human welfare? With steady growth in human quality of life … of the first generation subject to achieving a given, constant rate of growth in all subsequent generations. Hence, our … paths entailing very low emissions in the future, positive rates of growth in QuoL are possible while the first generation …

that leads to the stabilization of concentrations at 450 ppm. (2) North and South converge to a path of sustained growth at … year while Souths rates of growth are markedly higher. The transition paths require a drastic reduction of the share of … education in South. Surprisingly, in order to sustain Norths utility growth rate, some output must be transferred from South to …

the absence of condition (3) drives growth-deterring democratic expansions. Hence, too much and too little democracy can …The nineteenth century was a time of substantial changes in the patterns of economic growth. This was also a period of …, democracy expanded dramatically, giving birth to the first wave of democratization. The concurrence of these changes in the …

Although economic inequality has long been viewed as a cause of civil conflict, existing research has not found robust … empirical support for this relationship. This study explores the connections between inequality and civil conflict by focusing … data set with country- and group-level measures of inequality within and across ethnic groups. We then show that consistent …

. In "cohesive" equilibria, all individuals conform to the standard of proper behaviour, income inequality is low and … response to larger inequality. In a "clustered" equilibrium skilled workers work above the mean while unskilled workers work … below. In such an equilibrium, income inequality is large and sentiments are biased in favor of the industrious. As …

, in countries with weak institutions. Natural resources may be bad for democracy by harming political turnover. Our model … also suggests a non-linear dependence of human capital on natural resources. For low levels of democracy human capital … depends negatively on natural resources, while for high levels of democracy the dependence is reversed. This theoretical …