FINDISC · Foundations of Intergenerational Discounting
7РП — „Хора“ (Действия „Мария Кюри“)
- Период
- 2012-04-01 → 2016-03-31
- Финансиране от ЕС
- 100 000 €
- Участници
- 1
- Схема
- MC-CIG
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Накратко на български
Методите за оценка на бъдещите ползи и разходи, например при климатичните промени или пенсионните системи, се анализират чрез нова теоретична рамка. Това помага за по-ясното разбиране на етичните и икономическите аргументи при вземането на решения, които засягат следващите поколения.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Резултати накратко
Foundations of Intergenerational Discounting
Decisions about climate change, pension systems and other long-term issues affect not only the present but also future generations. In order to make these intergenerational decisions, public policy makers use the method of time discounting. In this method, costs and benefits of future generations are weighted less than those of the present one. There is widespread disagreement about intergenerational discounting, in particular about its social scientific foundations and ethical justification. This research project has developed new foundations for intergenerational discounting. The research conducted in this project has developed an account of intergenerational discounting that envisages discounting factors as expressing judgments concerning the future, which can be expressed within an axiomatic structure. On this view, the task of the defender of intergenerational discounting is to motivate such structures conceptually. The main advantage of this work is that it moves beyond the standard approaches to intergenerational discounting, which works in the framework of the so-called discount-rate approach. The approach pursued in this project makes the judgments that go into intergenerational discounting much more explicit. On the basis of this theoretical work, existing approaches to intergenerational discounting can be compared against this standard. The results of this research can be applied to current debates in philosophy, economics, and public policy about intergenerational discounting. The project was conducted by Dr. Conrad Heilmann, who is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Economics at the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE) at the Faculty of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. After studying economics, political science, and philosophy in Germany, France and the UK, Heilmann received a PhD in Philosophy from the London School of Economics in 2010. He was appointed as Assistant Professor at Erasmus University in 2011. The Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (CIG), awarded in 2011, has allowed him to move forward his research agenda on intergenerational discounting, starting in April 2012 through April 2016. Both the host institution and the researcher have greatly benefited from the grant scheme, with Dr. Heilmann being appointed on a permanent position, as well as a Co-Director of the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE), and research activities related to the project having taken place there.
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
Decisions about climate change, pension systems and other long-term issues affect not only the present but also future generations. Among the difficult questions raised by such intergenerational decisions, the following stands out as particularly controversial: how can the method of time discounting be applied to intergenerational decisions? In an intergenerational context, time discounting is the method of weighting costs and benefits to future generations less than those to the present one. This method is widely employed in public policy decisions with a large time-scale. Famously, there is widespread disagreement about intergenerational discounting, in particular about its social scientific foundations and its conceptual and ethical justification. This project in the philosophy of economics seeks to develop sound foundations for intergenerational discounting by employing approaches in measurement theory from philosophy of science, such as the representational theory of measurement. The project asks what kind of qualitative concepts a discounting factor expresses and under which conditions it is well founded.The proposed research has four objectives. Firstly, the project will provide general axiomatic foundations for intergenerational discounting, outlining the conditions that have to be met in order to establish discounting factors. Secondly, the project will assess conceptual motivations for intergenerational discounting that have been put forward in the literature on the social discount rate on the basis of the general axiomatic foundations, such as those that appeal to pure time preference, uncertainty, and the growth rate. Thirdly, the project will examine to what extent a distinction between facts and values can be upheld in intergenerational discounting, determining the scope of value-free discounting. Fourthly, these results will be applied to the current debates in economics and public policy about intergenerational discounting and climate change.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
Участници
- ERASMUS UNIVERSITEIT ROTTERDAM · RotterdamКоординаторНидерландия
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Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз