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Discounting climate change

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  • Partha Dasgupta

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    Volume (Year): 37 (2008)
    Issue (Month): 2 (December)
    Pages: 141-169

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    Handle: RePEc:kap:jrisku:v:37:y:2008:i:2:p:141-169
    DOI: 10.1007/s11166-008-9049-6
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    Keywords: Utilitarianism; Prioritarianism; Intergenerational well-being; Social discount rates; Uncertainty; Inequality aversion; Risk aversion; Rate of time preference; Hyperbolic discounting; Rate of return on investment; Precautionary principle; Elasticity of marginal felicity; Risk-free discount rates; Thin-tailed distributions; C61; D53; D9; G12;

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