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Discounting and Global Environmental Change
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Discounting plays a central role in decisions about global environmental change that affect the well-being of future generations. Discounting the future more heavily tilts decisions toward the present, making it less likely that society will undertake actions to mitigate climate change or other global environmental change. This article reviews the standard economics approach to discounting that emerges from solving for optimal savings and investment through time. Discounting depends on the pure rate of time preference and differences in consumption levels across time, giving rise to different marginal utilities of consumption. Discounting for problems like climate change that impact future generations involves an ethical dimension. This article includes discussions of ethical dimensions of discounting related to intragenerational and intergenerational equity and also covers behavioral economics, ecological economics, and mainstream economics approaches to discounting. The article closes with a review of the debates over discounting in climate change policy.
Title: Discounting and Global Environmental Change
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Discounting plays a central role in decisions about global environmental change that affect the well-being of future generations.
Discounting the future more heavily tilts decisions toward the present, making it less likely that society will undertake actions to mitigate climate change or other global environmental change.
This article reviews the standard economics approach to discounting that emerges from solving for optimal savings and investment through time.
Discounting depends on the pure rate of time preference and differences in consumption levels across time, giving rise to different marginal utilities of consumption.
Discounting for problems like climate change that impact future generations involves an ethical dimension.
This article includes discussions of ethical dimensions of discounting related to intragenerational and intergenerational equity and also covers behavioral economics, ecological economics, and mainstream economics approaches to discounting.
The article closes with a review of the debates over discounting in climate change policy.
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