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Chapter 21 Intertemporal Welfare Economics and the Environment

Heal, Geoffrey - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 3, …, (pp. 1105-1145). 2005

I review the complex welfare economic issues that arise in environmental decision-making over very long periods, as in cases relating to climate change and biodiversity loss. I also consider the issues that arise in choosing a discount rate to apply to very long-run projects and indicate how...

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Once more on intergenerational discounting in climate-change analysis : reply to Partha Dasgupta

Roemer, John E. - In: Environmental & resource economics : the official … 56 (2013) 1, pp. 141-148

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Long terme et actualisation : la controverse suscitée par le rapport Stern sur le changement climatique

Godard, Olivier - In: Revue de philosophie économique 9 (2008) 2, pp. 69-91

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Should we discount the welfare of future generations? : Ramsey and Suppes versus Koopmans and Arrow

Chichilnisky, Graciela; Hammond, Peter J.; Stern, … - 2018

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The malleability of undiscounted utilitarianism as a criterion of intergenerational justice

Asheim, Geir B.; Buchholz, Wolfgang - 2000

Undiscounted utilitarianism as a criterion of intergeneration justice has been questioned for different reasons: It has … allocation must involve discounting, and (2) that undiscounted utilitarianism subjects the present generation to heavy demands …-nologies) that undiscounted utilitarianism is so malleable that any efficient and non-decreasing allocation can be the unique optimum …

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A soul's view of the optimal population problem

De la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias - 2021

A long-standing challenge for welfare economics is to develop welfare criteria that can be applied to allocations with different population levels. Such a criterion is essential to resolve the optimal population problem, i.e., the tradeoff between population size and the welfare of each person...

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