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Discounting: reflections on the scientific and ethical dimensions of the debate
Unnerstall, H. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 6 (2003) 1, pp. 54-69
Discounting is still a highly contested element of cost–benefit analysis. From an epistemological point of view … level, discounting turns out to be a hypothesis that has to be justified empirically. This approach requires a method for a … direct (utility-)evaluation of future cash-flows in order to prove that discounting correctly represents changes of utility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563789
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The relationship between intra- and intergenerational ecological justice: determinants of goal conflicts and synergies in sustainability policy
Glotzbach, Stefanie; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2009
The guiding principle of sustainability is widely accepted in today´s international policies. The principle contains two seperate objectives of justice with regard to the conservation and use of ecosystems and their services: (1) global justice between different people of the present generation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265928
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The relationship between intra- and intergenerational ecological justice. Determinants of goal conflicts and synergies in sustainability policy
Glotzbach, Stefanie; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2009
The guiding principle of sustainability is widely accepted in today´s international policies. The principle contains two seperate objectives of justice with regard to the conservation and use of ecosystems and their services: (1) global justice between different people of the present generation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458176
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The ethics of intergenerational risk
Piacquadio, Paolo G. - 2015
The paper reexamines the ethics of intergenerational risk. When risk re-solves gradually, earlier decisions cannot depend on the realization of later shocks and, consequently, some inequalities across generations are inevitable. To account for these inequalities, risky intergenerational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557200
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Fair Intergenerational Utilitarianism: Risk, its Resolution over Time, and Discounting
Piacquadio, Paolo Giovanni - 2014
resolution of risk, (iii) show different discounting formulas depending on the magnitude of risk and on the timing of its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480801
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The ethics of intergenerational risk
Piacquadio, Paolo G. - 2015 - This version August 7, 2015
The paper reexamines the ethics of intergenerational risk. When risk re-solves gradually, earlier decisions cannot depend on the realization of later shocks and, consequently, some inequalities across generations are inevitable. To account for these inequalities, risky intergenerational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333646
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Fair intergenerational utilitarianism : risk, its resolution over time, and discounting
Piacquadio, Paolo Giovanni - 2014
resolution of risk, (iii) show different discounting formulas depending on the magnitude of risk and on the timing of its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467848
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The ethics of intergenerational risk
Piacquadio, Paolo G. - In: Journal of economic theory 186 (2020), pp. 1-33
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415896
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Fair Intergenerational Utilitarianism: Risk, its Resolution over Time, and Discounting
Piacquadio, Paolo Giovanni - CESifo - 2014
resolution of risk, (iii) show different discounting formulas depending on the magnitude of risk and on the timing of its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103396
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Is Sustainable Development Compatible with Rawlsian Justice?
Raymond, Francis E - In: Contributions in Theoretical Economics 6 (2006) 1
Does economic justice stymie economic development? This paper demonstrates that sustainability is compatible with Rawlsian intertemporal justice, even when considering human capital and natural resources. The methodology employed herein extends and amends previous works that (1) do not consider...
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