Sustainability and discounted utilitarianism in models of economic growth

DOI10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2009.08.003zbMath1202.91194MaRDI QIDQ964301

Tapan Mitra, Geir B. Asheim

Publication date: 15 April 2010

Published in: Mathematical Social Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/35419

zbMATH Keywords

efficiency; sustainability; exhaustible resources; intergenerational equity; discounted utilitarianism; Egalitarian consumption streams

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

91B62: Economic growth models

91B76: Environmental economics (natural resource models, harvesting, pollution, etc.)

91B15: Welfare economics

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