On the Choice of Metrics in Dynamic Welfare Analysis: Utility versus Money Measures
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Dynamic cost-benefit analysis; green national accounting; utility versus money metrics; Weitzman´s theorem;All these keywords.
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- D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
- D90 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - General
- Q20 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - General
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