Früher oder später wird alles weggeworfen. In der Konsumgesellschaft wandern aber auch gebrauchsfähige und neuwertige Produkte auf den Müll. Solche Verhaltensweisen sind das Ergebnis eines langfristigen Prozesses, entstanden über einen Zeitraum von anderthalb Jahrhunderten. Vorläufer waren...

In recent years, extensive literature on the Environmental Kuznets Curve leading to optimistic policy conclusions has attracted great attention. However, the underlying cross-section estimations are not very reliable. Accordingly, this contribution uses time series data for a single country with...

The Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis (EKC) postulates an inverted u-shaped curve between important pollutants and per capita GDP analogous to the relationship between in-come inequality and income per capita which has been analysed by Kuznets in 1955. The arti-cle focuses on an empirical...