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Sustainability has been largely replaced by discounted utilitarianism in contemporary climate-change economics. Our approach rejuvenates sustainability by expanding the conception of the quality of life, along the lines of the UN Human Development Reports, to include not only consumption, but...
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growth. We apply these criteria to our calibrated model via a novel algorithm inspired by the turnpike property. The computed … allocated to consumption and leisure are similar to the reference ones. On the other hand, higher growth rates require …
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Climate science indicates that climate stabilization requires low GHG emissions. Is this consistent with nondecreasing human welfare?
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Sustainability has been largely replaced by discounted utilitarianism in contemporary climate-change economics. Our approach rejuvenates sustainability by expanding the conception of the quality of life, along the lines of the UN Human Development Reports, to include not only consumption, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575242
of low emissions compatible with sustainable levels of human welfare? With steady growth in human quality of life … of the first generation subject to achieving a given, constant rate of growth in all subsequent generations. Hence, our … paths entailing very low emissions in the future, positive rates of growth in QuoL are possible while the first generation …
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Maximin) criterion, and, second, the Sustainable Growth Optimization criterion, that maximizes the utility of the first … generation subject to a given future rate of growth. We apply these criteria to our calibrated model via a novel algorithm … reference ones. On the other hand, higher growth rates require substantial increases in the fraction of labor devoted to …
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of low emissions compatible with sustainable levels of human welfare? With steady growth in human quality of life … of the first generation subject to achieving a given, constant rate of growth in all subsequent generations. Hence, our … paths entailing very low emissions in the future, positive rates of growth in QuoL are possible while the first generation …
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that leads to the stabilization of concentrations at 450 ppm. (2) North and South converge to a path of sustained growth at … year while Souths rates of growth are markedly higher. The transition paths require a drastic reduction of the share of … education in South. Surprisingly, in order to sustain Norths utility growth rate, some output must be transferred from South to …
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Mankind must cooperate to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to prevent a catastrophic rise in global temperature, with its concomitant effects on sea level, rainfall, drought, storms, agricultural production, and human migration. What is the appropriate way of evaluating how the costs of...
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generation subject to a given future rate of growth. The computed paths have a QuoL higher than the year 2000 level for all … allocated to consumption and leisure are similar to the reference ones. Higher growth rates require substantial increases in the …
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