Discounting climate change

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 37, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 141-169

  Dasgupta, Partha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hyperbolic discounting; Inequality aversion; Intergenerational well being; Precautionary principle; Prioritarianism; Rate of return on investment; Rate of time preference; Risk aversion; Social discount rates; Uncertainty; Utilitarianism

Indexed keywords

EID: 55949118682     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: 15730476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11166-008-9049-6     Document Type: Article

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