To justify substantial carbon emission reductions, recent literature on cost-benefit analysis of climate change suggests discounting environmental quality at a lower discount rate than the standard consumption discount rate. Recent literature also shows that a theoretical foundation for such a...

Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) couple representations of the natural climate system with models of the global economy to evaluate climate and energy policies. Such models are currently used to derive the benefits of carbon mitigation policies through estimates of the social cost of carbon...

Dieses Buch ist einem akademischen Lehrer und Forscher gewidmet, dessen Werk ein breites Spektrum aufweist, das sich entlang der Zeitachse merklich von rein ökonomischen hin zu ökologisch motivierten Fragestellungen verschoben hat. Joachim Klaus hat das Preisniveau in die postkeynesianische...