Ethics of the scientist qua policy advisor: inductive risk, uncertainty, and catastrophe in climate economics
This paper discusses ethical issues surrounding Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) of the economic effects of climate change, and how climate economists acting as policy advisors ought to represent the uncertain possibility of catastrophe. Some climate economists, especially Martin Weitzman, have a...
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Springer Netherlands
2019
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