The period of past four decades has been characterized as one of neo-liberalism, financialization, globalization, privatization and de-regulation. Inequality has risen in industrialised countries, labour’s share in national income has been in decline and economic growth slowed. The evidence of...

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We impute a global social welfare function that is consistent with the burden sharing in the Kyoto Protocol and in two proposals for a post-Kyoto treaty. The Kyoto Protocol favored the EU. The Frankel proposal for a post-Kyoto treaty continues the favorable treatment of the EU, while the EU...

In this paper, we analyze the response of the future world's carbon stock to a reduction in global inequality among countries, using a framework that allows countries to make their environmental policy strategically. Heterogeneity across countries is related to income, emission technology, and...