In assessing the effects of climate change policies, economists use the social discount rate, with an implicit assimilation of a collective choice involving several generations, to the intertemporal allocation of consumption of a single infinitely lived individual. The higher the discount rate, the more the future damage of climate change is dwarfed. This is opposed to the notion of a common good involving future generations.
Boitani, A., Tasso di sconto sociale e cambiamento climatico, <<DIZIONARIO DI DOTTRINA SOCIALE DELLA CHIESA>>, 2024; 2024 (3): 62-71. [doi:10.26350/dozdott_000163] [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/303576]
Tasso di sconto sociale e cambiamento climatico
Boitani, Andrea
2024
Abstract
In assessing the effects of climate change policies, economists use the social discount rate, with an implicit assimilation of a collective choice involving several generations, to the intertemporal allocation of consumption of a single infinitely lived individual. The higher the discount rate, the more the future damage of climate change is dwarfed. This is opposed to the notion of a common good involving future generations.File in questo prodotto:
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