Economists, value judgments, and climate change: A view from feminist economics
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Economists, value judgments, and climate change: A view from feminist economics
A number of recent discussions about ethical issues in climate change, as engaged in by economists, have focused on the value of the parameter representing the rate of time preference within models of optimal growth. This essay examines many economists’ antipathy to serious discussion of ethical matters, and suggests that the avoidance of questions of intergenerational equity is related to anot...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Ecological Economics
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0921-8009
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.01.001