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Cost-Benefit Analysis: Not A Suitable Approach For Evaluating Climate Regulation Policies, Gregory Scott Crespi
Cost-Benefit Analysis: Not A Suitable Approach For Evaluating Climate Regulation Policies, Gregory Scott Crespi
Washington and Lee Journal of Energy, Climate, and the Environment
Cost-benefit analysis is a widely used approach for guiding public sector policy decisions. Given the impetus provided by strong evidence of global warming, numerous scholars are now considering the role that cost-benefit analysis should play, if any, in assessing climate regulation policies, and are offering recommendations as to how this methodology can be better utilized in that context. However, that scholarship invariably overlooks the fact that conventional cost-benefit analyses implicitly embrace the untenable assumption that the genetic identities of future persons are exogenous with regard to the policies being evaluated. The conclusions of such cost-benefit analyses are therefore irrelevant to …
Climbing Mount Mitigation: A Proposal For Legislative Suspension Of Climate Change "Mitigation Litigation", J. B. Ruhl
Climbing Mount Mitigation: A Proposal For Legislative Suspension Of Climate Change "Mitigation Litigation", J. B. Ruhl
Washington and Lee Journal of Energy, Climate, and the Environment
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