Sustainability and the Infinite Future: A Case Study of a False Modeling Assumption in Environmental Economics.
This essay examines the issue of false assumptions in models via a case study of a prominent economic model of sustainable development, wherein the assumption of an infinite future plays a central role. Two proposals are found to be helpful for this case, one based on the concept of derivational rob...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 82; no. 5; pp. 1065 - 1085 |
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