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Nondogmatic Climate Policy

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  • Niko Jaakkola
  • Antony Millner

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Disagreements about normative aspects of social time preferences have led to estimates of the social cost of carbon (SCC) that differ by orders of magnitude. We investigate how disagreements about the SCC change if planners are nondogmatic, that is, they admit the possibility of a change in their normative views and internalize the preferences of future selves. Although nondogmatic planners may disagree about all the contentious aspects of social time preferences, disagreements about the SCC reduce dramatically. Admitting the possibility of a change in views once every 40 years results in a fivefold reduction in the range of recommended SCCs.

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  • Niko Jaakkola & Antony Millner, 2022. "Nondogmatic Climate Policy," Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, University of Chicago Press, vol. 9(4), pages 807-841.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jaerec:doi:10.1086/719237
    DOI: 10.1086/719237
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    Cited by:

    1. Rick Van der Ploeg, 2020. "Discounting And Climate Policy," OxCarre Working Papers 244, Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, University of Oxford.
    2. repec:sus:susewp:0724 is not listed on IDEAS
    3. Jinchi Dong & Richard S. J. Tol & Fangzhi Wang, 2024. "Towards a representative social cost of carbon," Papers 2404.04989, arXiv.org.
    4. repec:sus:susewp:0824 is not listed on IDEAS

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    JEL classification:

    • D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming

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