Comments on: Partha Dasgupta on Lomborg’s muddled concreteness http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/09/14/partha-dasgupta-on-lomborgs-muddled-concreteness/ coping with ecological suprise in a human dominated world Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:05:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: The Post-Normal Times - Putting Science into Context http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/09/14/partha-dasgupta-on-lomborgs-muddled-concreteness/#comment-68739 The Post-Normal Times - Putting Science into Context Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:24:06 +0000 http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/09/14/partha-dasgupta-on-lomborgs-muddled-concreteness/#comment-68739 <strong>Economists (and others) weigh in on The Lomborg...</strong> In a previous post about The Lomborg, in followup to a previous one, I had a bit of a disagreement with Michael Tobis, over whether Lomborg is just adhering to the principles and presumptions of conventional economics, and whether what...... Economists (and others) weigh in on The Lomborg…

In a previous post about The Lomborg, in followup to a previous one, I had a bit of a disagreement with Michael Tobis, over whether Lomborg is just adhering to the principles and presumptions of conventional economics, and whether what……

]]> By: M. Simons http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/09/14/partha-dasgupta-on-lomborgs-muddled-concreteness/#comment-66008 M. Simons Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:42:17 +0000 http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/09/14/partha-dasgupta-on-lomborgs-muddled-concreteness/#comment-66008 One of the interesting topics that crops up in the economics of sustainable development is the validity of applying pure time discount rates across the board. Stretching the domain of discount rates leads to some very strange conclusions, typified by the kind of short-term thinking that Lomborg advocates. Shane Frederick points out that we (as humans) are wildly inconsistant when it comes to discounting the future. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/477/ One of the studies Frederick points to shows that our values are in some cases aligned with inter-generational sustainability. One of the interesting topics that crops up in the economics of sustainable development is the validity of applying pure time discount rates across the board. Stretching the domain of discount rates leads to some very strange conclusions, typified by the kind of short-term thinking that Lomborg advocates.

Shane Frederick points out that we (as humans) are wildly inconsistant when it comes to discounting the future.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/477/
One of the studies Frederick points to shows that our values are in some cases aligned with inter-generational sustainability.

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