Birnbacher, Dieter - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 6 (2003) 1, pp. 42-53
Discounting is a problem because of the striking discrepancy between, on the one hand, its impact on the results of … rational and moral justification. Starting from the diagnosis that the controversy about discounting suffers from considerable … intransparency, the paper makes an attempt to structure the debate by distinguishing four main types of discounting and by assessing …