The Economics of the Global Environment Catastrophic Risks in Theory

This is the first book combining research on the Global Environment, Catastrophic Risks and Economic Theory and Policy. Modern economic theory originated in the middle of the twentieth century when industrial expansion coupled with population growth led t

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Graciela Chichilnisky Armon Rezai Editors

The Economics of the Global Environment Catastrophic Risks in Theory and Policy

Studies in Economic Theory Volume 29

Founded by Charalambos D. Aliprantis Series editors Nicholas C. Yannelis The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA Timothy J. Kehoe University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN, USA Bernard Cornet Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1, Paris, France; and University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

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Graciela Chichilnisky ⋅ Armon Rezai Editors

The Economics of the Global Environment Catastrophic Risks in Theory and Policy

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Editors Graciela Chichilnisky Columbia University New York, NY USA

Armon Rezai Department of Socio-Economics Vienna University of Economics and Business Vienna Austria

Partly previously published in the journal Economic Theory, Volume 49(2) ISSN 1431-8849 Studies in Economic Theory ISBN 978-3-319-31941-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31943-8

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