The Economics of the Global Environment Catastrophic Risks in Theory and Policy /
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| Summary: | VII, 649 p. 76 illus., 46 illus. in color. text |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Series: | Studies in Economic Theory,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31943-8 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Catastrophic risk in economic theory
- Catastrophic Risk, Rare Events, and Black Swans: Toward an Alternative Synthesis
- Preference Representations for Catastrophic Risk Analysis
- Modeling Decisions Involving Ambiguous, Vague, or Rare Events
- Modeling Uncertainty, Context and Information Fusion via Lattice-Based Probability
- The foundations of uncertainty with black swans
- The Topology of Change
- Sustainable markets with short sales
- Part II. Ethical and welfare considerations
- Sustainable recursive social welfare functions
- Intergenerational equity, efficiency, and constructability
- Sustainable exploitation of a natural resource: a satisfying use of Chichilnisky’s criterion
- The axiomatic approach to the ranking of infinite streams
- Part III. The environment in a global context
- Nested externalities and polycentric institutions: must we wait for global solutions to climate change before taking actions at other scales?
- Capital growthin a global warming model: will China and India sign a climate treaty?
- Unspoken ethical issues in the climate affair: Insights from a theoretical analysis of negotiation mandates
- Carbon leakages: a general equilibrium view
- Part IV. The case of climate change
- Chaos Control - Climate Stabilization by Closing the Global Carbon Cycle
- Climate Change and Social Choice Theory
- Discounting and the evaluation of climate policy
- Global warming and economic externalities
- Part V. Economic policy and regulation
- Detrimental externalities, pollution rights, and the “Coase theorem”
- Taxes versus quantities for a stock pollutant with endogenous abatement costs and asymmetric information
- Walrasian prices in markets with tradable rights
- Part VI. Catastrophic risk in economic practice
- Exploring the role of emotions in decisions involving catastrophic risks: Lessons from a double investigation
- How the change of risk announcement on catastrophic disaster affects property prices
- Modeling US stock market volatility-return dependence using conditional Copula and quantile regression
- Economic Crises: Natural or Unnatural Catastrophes? .