Dasgupta, Susmita; Laplante, Benoit; Wang, Hua; … - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 16 (2002) 1, pp. 147-168
The environmental Kuznets curve posits an inverted-U relationship between pollution and economic development. Pessimistic critics of empirically estimated curves have argued that their declining portions are illusory, either because they are cross-sectional snapshots that mask a long-run "race...