Arguments about the appropriate discount rate often start by assuming a Utilitarian social welfare function with isoelastic utility, in which the consumption discount rate is a function of the (constant) elasticity of marginal utility along with the (much discussed) utility discount rate. In...

Arguments about the appropriate discount rate often start by assuming a Utilitarian social welfare function with isoelastic utility, in which the consumption discount rate is a function of the (constant) elasticity of marginal utility along with the (much discussed) utility discount rate. In...

Based on a 2020-survey of the Norwegian public (N=2000), we explore attitudes to eight different polices - covering increasing prices, expanding renewable energy production and limiting petroleum production - through combining correlation, factor, regression, and cluster analyses. The cluster...