Scientific progress and irreversibility: an economic interpretation of the ‘Precautionary Principle’
By Christian Gollier, Bruno Jullien, Nicolas Treich. 2000
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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences
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- Optimal Diversity: Increasing Returns versus Recombinant Innovation (2008, background): “Gollier et al. (2000) formalize the rationality of adhering to a precautionary principle (i.e. keeping options open).”
- Optimal climate change mitigation under long-term growth uncertainty: Stochastic integrated assessment and analytic findings (2014, background): “Gollier et al. (2000) analyze conditions on prudence under which expected information over damage uncertainty increases the prevention effort.”
- Non-tariff barriers, integration and the transatlantic economy (2015, background): “Hence, NTB effects of PTAs must be associated with and can be estimated as effects beyond tariff reductions (see Egger and Larch, 2011).”
- Integrating Ecology and Economics in the Study of Ecosystem Services: Some Lessons Learned (2009, background): “F or p er so na l u se o nl y. principle, which places a high burden of proof on proponents of actions that might cause irreversible harm (for an economic evaluation of the precautionary principle, see Gollier et al. 2000, Gollier & Treich 2003).”
- Optimal climate policy is a utopia: from quantitative to qualitative cost-benefit analysis (2004, neutral): “future generations (Gollier et al., 2000).”
- Regulation with Anticipated Learning about Environmental Damages (2006, background): “Epstein (1980) provides a more general treatment of this problem; his results have recently been extended by Gollier, Jullien, and Treich (2000).”
- The Climate Change Learning Curve (2007, background): “and as pointed out by Gollier et al. (2000) , this does not admit a precautionary regulation”