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How to Take Rights Seriously: A New Approach to the Intertemporal Evaluation of Social Alternatives

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  • Vincent Martinet

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  • Ngo Van Long & Vincent Martinet, 2016. "How to Take Rights Seriously: A New Approach to the Intertemporal Evaluation of Social Alternatives," CIRANO Working Papers 2016s-60, CIRANO.
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    Keywords

    Rights; Welfare; Intergenerational Equity; Sustainable Development; Droits; Bien-être; Equité entre les générations; Développement durable;
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    JEL classification:

    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development

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