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This paper aims to enrich the standard toolbox for measuring diversity in economics. In so doing, we compare the indicators of diversity used by economists with those used by biologists and ecologists. Ecologists and biologists are concerned about biodiversity: the diversity of organisms that...
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used in the abatement sector determines the existence and the direction of the growth-effect. A tighter environmental tax …
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This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per … factors that have governed the pace of the transition from stagnation to growth and have thus contributed to contemporary … variation in economic development. It uncovers the forces that have sparked the emergence of multiple growth regimes and …
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We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a dynamic model of endogenous urban growth with two sectors of … equilibrium, compared to the efficient urbanization path, if economic growth implies increasing aggregate emissions. If, on the … other hand, production becomes cleaner over time (`quality growth') the urbanization path approximates the efficient outcome …
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(both the size and the “direction”) on the long-run growth driven by human capital accumulation à la Lucas (1988), when the …. decreases) the BGP rate of growth. When abatement services are produced with the final output, the environmental taxation does … not influence growth. …
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