Ramsey with Environmental Awareness

Amnon Levy ()

Economics Working Papers from School of Economics, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Abstract: This paper speculates how Ramsey’s (1928) model of optimal consumption and saving would have been constructed had Sir Frank Ramsey lived in a period of greater awareness of the environmental damaged caused by production processes. The paper extends Ramsey’s model to the case where the instantaneous satisfaction of the representative agent from consumption is spoiled by the degradation of his physical environment and spending on cleaning up and greening operations are therefore engendered.

Keywords: Consumption; environmental investment; golden rule (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O12 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dge and nep-env
Date: 2008
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