Discounting for time and risk in energy policy

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Discounting for time and risk in energy policy

Robert C. Lind ... [et al.]

(Resources for the Future library collection, . Energy policy ; v. 3)

RFF Press, 2011

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"First published in 1982 by Resources for the Future."--T.p. verso

Set ISBN for "Energy policy": 9781617260025

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Description

This is a collection of theoretical papers, including contributions by Partha Dasgupta and three Nobel prize-winning economists: Kenneth Arrow, Amartya Sen, and Joseph Stiglitz. Originally published in 1982.

Table of Contents

  • 1: Introduction
  • 2: A Primer on the Major Issues Relating to the Discount Rate for Evaluating National Energy Options
  • 3: A Reader's Guide to the Papers in this Volume
  • 4: The Rate of Discount on Public Investments with Imperfect Capital Markets
  • Comment
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  • 5: The Rate of Discount for Benefit-Cost Analysis and the Theory of the Second Best
  • 6: Risk Measurement of Public Projects
  • 6a: Comment
  • 7: Measuring the Social Rate of Return on Private Investment
  • 8: Resource Depletion, Research and Development, and the Social Rate of Discount
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  • 9: Approaches to the Choice of Discount Rates for Social Benefit-Cost Analysis
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  • 10: Plant Investment Decision Making in the Electric Power Industry
  • 10a: Comment
  • 11: The Social Efficiency of Electric Utility Decision Criteria
  • 12: The Rate of Discount and the Application of Social Benefit-Cost Analysis in the Context of Energy Policy Decisions

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