Discounting climate change

Partha Dasgupta ()

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2008, vol. 37, issue 2, pages 141-169

Keywords: Utilitarianism; Prioritarianism; Intergenerational well-being; Social discount rates; Uncertainty; Inequality aversion; Risk aversion; Rate of time preference; Hyperbolic discounting; Rate of return on investment; Precautionary principle; Elasticity of marginal felicity; Risk-free discount rates; Thin-tailed distributions; C61; D53; D9; G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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