Discounting future prospects, and the quest for sustainability

Economics and the Future: Time and Discounting in Private and Public Decision Making

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 97-120

  Randall, Alan ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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