Separating ethics from facts in climate-change economics

Separating ethics from facts in climate-change economics: a brief discussion of the recent work of Humberto Llavador, John Roemer, and Joaquim Silvestre / Stergios Athanassoglou, FEEM blog, 29/03/2011

http://www.feem.it/getpage.aspx?id=3879

Intergenerational tradeoffs are intrinsic to climate-change policy.  They arise because, while the costs of climate-change mitigation are immediate, its essential benefits are likely to be felt only far into the future. Given this asymmetry, it is not clear how the present generation should craft its long-term environmental policy. Indeed, what welfare measure should it employ in the comparison of different intertemporal consumption paths? That is to say, on what formal basis should it decide that one consumption path is “better” than another?…


Vous aimerez aussi...

Laisser un commentaire

Votre adresse e-mail ne sera pas publiée. Les champs obligatoires sont indiqués avec *

Ce site utilise Akismet pour réduire les indésirables. En savoir plus sur comment les données de vos commentaires sont utilisées.

Rechercher dans OpenEdition Search

Vous allez être redirigé vers OpenEdition Search