The Economics of the Global Environment : Catastrophic Risks in Theory and Policy / / edited by Graciela Chichilnisky, Armon Rezai |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (649 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 338.9 |
Collana | Studies in Economic Theory |
Soggetto topico |
Economic theory
Climate change Game theory Natural disasters Political economy Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods Climate Change Management and Policy Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences Climate Change Natural Hazards International Political Economy |
ISBN | 3-319-31943-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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 growth in 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? . |
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The economics of the Yasuní initiative : climate change as if thermodynamics mattered / / Joseph Henry Vogel ; foreword by Graciela Chichilnisky [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Vogel Joseph Henry |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Anthem Press, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxvi, 117 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 333.701 |
Collana | Anthem Studies in Development and Globalization |
Soggetto topico |
Environmental policy - Economic aspects
Environmental policy - Economic aspects - Ecuador Climatic changes - Economic aspects Greenhouse gas mitigation - Economic aspects |
ISBN |
0-85728-628-5
1-283-37792-6 9786613377920 1-84331-863-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Thermodynamics: the language chosen defines the debate -- The tragedy of the commons: a class of problems that has no technical solution -- The willful ignorance of realpolitik: market failure or cost-shifting success? -- The general theory of second best: a rigorous justification for an intuitively just proposal -- Through the bottleneck of a cowboy economy: financing shovel-ready projects -- Conclusions: reason for hope and despair. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459365203321 |
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