values; and e) time preference (discounting) vs. time neutrality. …

values; and e) time preference (discounting) vs. time neutrality. …

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 …

This paper examines the well-known tension between discounting and sustainability in the long-term management of …, discounting procedures are useful in characterising decision-makers' preferences concerning tradeoffs between costs and benefits … discounting favours the uncompensated depletion of resource stocks. …

Discounting is still a highly contested element of costâbenefit analysis. From an epistemological point of view, three …, discounting turns out to be a hypothesis that has to be justified empirically. This approach requires a method for a direct … (utility-)evaluation of future cash-flows in order to prove that discounting correctly represents changes of utility-values in …

The discussion on discounting has reached a more refined stage by now so that some earlier objections made by ethicists … intertemporal discounting. It is legitimate to discount future events if and only if there is a well-founded expectation that these …

This paper touches on some crucial ethical topics that are embedded in the economic technique of discounting. It is … perspective from which the economic practice of discounting might be judged appropriately. Some distinctions are drawn, and some … for modifications, weighings and adjustments of discounting are mentioned. Finally, an argument why discounting should be …

Diminishing marginal utility is a potentially reasonable basis for discounting increasing future consumption per head …

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 …

This paper examines the well-known tension between discounting and sustainability in the long-term management of …, discounting procedures are useful in characterising decision-makers' preferences concerning tradeoffs between costs and benefits … discounting favours the uncompensated depletion of resource stocks. …