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Fair Intergenerational Utilitarianism : Risk, its Resolution Over Time, and Discounting
Piacquadio, Paolo G. - 2015
resolution of risk, (iii) show different discounting formulas depending on the magnitude of risk and on the timing of its …
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The ethics of intergenerational risk
Piacquadio, Paolo G. - In: Journal of economic theory 186 (2020), pp. 1-33
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Discounting in natural resource damage assessment
Horsch, Eric; Phaneuf, Daniel J.; Giguere, Chris; … - In: Journal of benefit-cost analysis : JBCA 14 (2023) 1, pp. 141-161
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Evolutionary Thinking in Environmental Economics
Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256552
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The Place of Nature in Economic Development
Dasgupta, Partha - In: Handbook of Development Economics
In this chapter both theory and empirics are used to show that our picture of the processes of economic development changes radically when nature is introduced as a capital asset. Particular features of institutions that fashion societies' use of the natural-resource base are identified and...
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Impacts of energy shocks on US agricultural productivity growth and commodity prices—A structural VAR analysis
Wang, Sun Ling; McPhail, Lihong - In: Energy Economics 46 (2014) C, pp. 435-444
We examine the impacts of energy price shocks on U.S. agricultural productivity growth and commodity prices' volatility by developing a structural VAR model. We use historical annual data of real U.S. gasoline prices, agricultural total factor productivity (TFP), real GDP, real agricultural...
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Green attitude and economic growth
Ott, Ingrid; Soretz, Susanne - 2015
reduce the externality, because individuals care more about the environment if their income is higher or if pollution is more … environment is influenced by pollution itself, that means, if individuals care the more about environmental issues the worse …
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Evaluating Projects and Assessing Sustainable Development in Imperfect Economies
Arrow, Kenneth; Dasgupta, Partha; Mäler, Karl-Göran - 2003
We are interested in three related questions: (1) How should accounting prices be estimated? (2) How should we evaluate policy change in an imperfect economy? (3) How can we check whether intergenerational well-being will be sustained along a projected economic programme? We do not presume that...
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Auf dem Weg zur weltanschaulichen Bekenntnisschule: Das wirtschaftspolitische Leitbild der Hochschule Pforzheim
Maurer, Rainer - 2015
Dieses Diskussionspapier beleuchtet die PRME-Verpflichtung der Hochschule Pforzheim und die daraus resultierenden Probleme (Abschnitt 2) aus vier Perspektiven: der erkenntnistheoretischen (Abschnitt 3), der erfahrungswissenschaftlichen (Abschnitt 4), der juristischen (Abschnitt 5) und einer...
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Evolutionary Thinking in Environmental Economics
van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 2007
Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325207