Polluting Industrialization

Karine Constant, Carine Nourry and Thomas Seegmuller

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Abstract: Recently, many contributions have focused on the relationship between capital accumulation, growth and population dynamics, introducing fertility choice in macro-dynamic models. In this paper, we go one step further highlighting also the link with pollution. We develop a simple overlapping generations model with paternalistic altruism according to wealth and environmental concerns. One can therefore explain a simultaneous increase of capital intensity, population growth and pollution, namely a polluting industrialization. We show in addition that a permanent productivity shock, possibly associated to technological innovations, promotes such a polluting development process, escaping a trap where the economy is relegated to a low capital intensity, population growth and pollution.

Keywords: Growth; Population dynamics; Pollution; Altruism; Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-10-19
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