The chase of a multi-armed economist for the elusive social discount rate
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policy evaluation; social discount rate; social welfare;All these keywords.
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- D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
- H30 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - General
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