Policymaking for posterity

Lawrence Summers and Richard Zeckhauser

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2008, vol. 37, issue 2, 115-140

Keywords: Discounting; Posterity; Altruism; Comet problem; Trolley problem; Climate change; Global warming; Uncertainty; Learning; Reaction function; D90; D64; Q54; D81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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