Bimonte, Salvatore - In: Ecological Economics 68 (2009) 8-9, pp. 2406-2411
This paper discusses the double convergence hypothesis (DCH) that the uncritical analysis of the so-called environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) implicitly implies. According to the EKC, empirical evidence would support the hypothesis that economic growth, through a deterministic sequence of phases,...