Policy advocates frequently request for unilateral action to push forward climate protection in international negotiations. It is yet conventional wisdom in environmental economics that unilateral action does not pay for the first mover due to free-riding behavior of the other countries. How...

Summary Based on the observation that energy costs have been decreasing over much of the 20th century, this paper extends the Romer (1990) model of endogenous technological change to examine the impact of secular changes in energy costs on technological progress and long-run growth. The key...

Dieses Buch richtet sich vor allem an sozialwissenschaftlich orientierte Nachhaltigkeitsforscher, an Fachleute aus Wirtschaft, Verwaltung und Politik sowie an all diejenigen, die sich für die gesellschaftlichen Folgen des demografischen Wandels interessieren. Der Autor untersucht, welchen...