Discounting and intergenerational equity
The effects of decisions made today about many environmental policies - including climate change and nuclear waste - will be felt across hundreds, if not thousands, of years. In the case of issues with such long-term ramifications, analysts often employ discount rates to compare present and future c...
| Other Authors: | Portney, Paul R., Weyant, John P., EBSCOhost. |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
Resources for the Future,
[1999]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (ix, 186 pages) : illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Paul R. Portney and John P. Weyant
- Discounting, morality, and gaming / Kenneth J. Arrow
- "Just keep discounting, but ..." / Martin L. Weitzman
- Reconciling philosophy and economics in long-term discounting : comments on Arrow and Weitzman / Michael A. Toman
- On the uses of benefit-cost reasoning in choosing policy toward global climate change / David F. Bradford
- A market-based discount rate : comments on Bradford / W. David Montgomery
- Intergenerational equity, social discount rates, and global warming / Partha Dasgupta, Karl-Göran Mäler, and Scott Barrett
- Substitution and social discount rates : comments on Dasgupta, Mäler, and Barrett / V. Kerry Smith
- Mock referenda for intergenerational decisionmaking / Raymond J. Kopp and Paul R. Portney
- Intergenerational discounting / Thomas C. Schelling.
- Intergenerational ethics, efficiency, and commitment : comments on Schelling and Kopp and Portney / Jerome Rothenberg
- Equity, efficiency, and discounting / Alan S. Manne
- Discounting for the very long term / William R. Cline
- Models and discount rates : comments on Manne and Cline / Shantayanan Devarajan
- Discounting and public policies that affect the distant future / William D. Nordhaus
- The implications of hyperbolic discounting for project evaluation / Maureen Cropper and David Laibson
- Analysis for intergenerational decisionmaking / Robert C. Lind.