The Ethical Underpinnings of Climate Economics

Herausgeber: Walsh, Adrian; Purves, Duncan; Hormio, Säde

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, which brings together scholars from both economics and ethical theory, explores the interrelation between climate ethics and economics. Examining a wide range of topics including sustainability, conceptions of value, risk management and the monetization of harm, this book will explore the ethical limitations of economic analysis but, at the same time, will not assume that economic theory cannot accommodate the concerns raised.This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental ethics, economics, political science, political philosophy and the philosophy of economics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781138122963
• ISBN-10: 1138122963
• Artikelnr.: 46165502

Autorenporträt

Adrian Walsh is an Associate Professor at the School of Humanities, University of New England, Australia. Säde Hormio is a PhD candidate and researcher in Climate Ethics and Economics project at the Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki. Duncan Purves is a Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Environmental Studies at New York University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. "Do not Ask for Morality"
3. The Ethics of Discounting: an Introduction
4. Climate Change, Intergenerational Equity, and the Social Discount
Rate
5. When Utility Maximization is not Enough: Sufficientarianism and the
Economics of Climate Change
6. A New Defence of Probability Discounting
7. Climate Change Mitigation, Sustainability and Non-substitutability
8. Dimensions of Climate Disadvantage
9. Moral asymmetries in economic evaluations of climate change: The
challenge of assessing diverse effects
10. The Ethical Failures of Climate Economics
11. A Lockean Approach to Greenhouse Gas Emissions
12. Climate Change Policy, Economic Analysis and Price-Independent
Conceptions of Ultimate Value