Adler, Matthew D.; Anthoff, David; Bosetti, Valentina; … - 2016
reduction in current consumption that produces a loss in social welfare equivalent to that caused by the emission of a ton of CO …2. The standard approach is to calculate the SCC using a discounted-utilitarian social welfare function (SWF) - one that … welfare economics, but has been, thus far, little used in climate scholarship. The core idea is to give greater weight to well …