Optimal climate policy is a utopia: from quantitative to qualitative cost-benefit analysis

By J. Bergh. 2004

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The Polluter Pays Principle and Cost-Benefit Analysis of Climate Change: An Application of Fund (2006, unknown): “Practicalities aside (Pearce, 1976; van den Bergh, 2004), there is a fundamental problem with cost-benefit analysis.”
Evolutionary thinking in environmental economics (2007, background): “More recently, climate change research is an area where (optimal) growth models have been actually “applied” (Nordhaus, 1994), leading to considerable criticism (e.g., Azar 1998; van den Bergh, 2004).”
Transition policy and innovation policy: Friends or foes? (2011, background): “While this approach of variety creation has resulted in limited TIS build-up for selected technologies such as biomass technologies [10,18], the next phase where selected TIS are stimulated to grow and replace incumbent production systems is not yet translated into policy [19,20].”
Externality or sustainability economics (2010, background): “discount rate should be equal or close to zero as an opposition between those supporting short-term market efficiency and those supporting long term sustainability (van den Bergh, 2010a). From this angle, one might propose that if the aim of sustainability is politically supported, this can be trans”