Discounting dilemmas: Editors' introduction

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 37, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 95-106

  Zeckhauser, Richard J ^a   Viscusi, W Kip ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Discounting; Irrationality; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 55949089921     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: 15730476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11166-008-9055-8     Document Type: Article

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