Climate Change: Economics, Ethics, and Population Semester 1 2020, Australian National University Main Texts Weekly Topics and Readings Only numbered Readings are Required March 11: Justice, Goodness, and Individual Ethics
March 18: Justice, Goodness, and Economic Analysis of Public Policy
March 25: Aggregating Goodness, Social Welfare Functions, and Economic Analysis of Publc Policy
April 1: Maximizing Expected Value vs. Precautionary Objectives for Policy
April 8: Discounting
April 15: No Class, Spring Break April 22: Valuing Life and Death
April 29: Population Ethics and Climate Change
May 6: Population Ethics: The Repugnant Conclusion and Non-Identity Problem
May 13: Population Ethics: Mere Addition Paradox, Sadistic Conclusion, Very Repugnant Conclusion
May 20: Population Ethics: Pareto-Dominance and Different Number Cases May 27: Population Ethics Continued Optional: June 17: Buchak on Climate Change, Risk, and Precaution
June 27: Final Paper Due via email at 11:59pm Canberra Time Further Reading Further Reading: Science, Impacts, Adaptation, Mitigation Further Reading: Ethics and Philosophy
Further Reading: Climate Economics General Climate Economics: Estimating Climate Damages: Inequalities: Francis Dennig et al. Inequality, climate impacts on the future poor, and carbon prices, PNAS (2015) Discounting: Risk and Precaution: Revenue Recycling: Health Co-Benefits: Political Economy and the 'Pre-Paris Top-Down Approach to International Action (ie seeking a Kyoto-like international treaty): Political Economy and the 'Post-Paris Bottom-Up Approach to International Action': |