The Stern Review and its critics: implications for the theory and practice of costs-benefits analysis
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Cost-Benefit Analysis; Discounting; Discount Rate; Climate Change;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- D90 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - General
- H40 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - General
- K32 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Energy, Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
- O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
- Q20 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - General
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