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Growth, Environment and Uncertain Future Preferences

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Ayong Le Kama, A.
Schubert, K.

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The attitude of future generations towards environmental assets could be different from ours, and it is necessary to take into account explicitly this possibility in the current debate about environmental policy. The question we address here is : should uncertainty about future preferences lead to a more conservative attitude towards environment ? We show that in general it is not the case when preferences are non-separable between consumption and environmental quality. Only separable preferences, or an uncertainty about the time at which preferences could change associated with specific characteristics of the economy, could justify a more conservative attitude from now.

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Paper provided by Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1) in its series Papiers d'Economie Mathématique et Applications with number 1999.52.

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Date of creation: 1999
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Keywords: ECONOMIC GROWTH ; ENVIRONMENT ; RISK;

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O41 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
Q20 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - General

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  1. Philippe Michel & Gilles Rotillon, 1995. "Disutility of pollution and endogenous growth," Environmental & Resource Economics, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 6(3), pages 279-300, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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