On Dec 26, 2011, at 2:47 PM, nathan tankus wrote:
> http://goo.gl/tCyVp
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> this review in nature is my favorite critique of his book.
Yet the author, PARTHA DAS GUPTA, states in the 'Discounting Climate Change' paper, the following... "Even as I compose this paper, I realise that doing welfare economics is a delicate matter. There is a fine dividing line between ethical thinking and authoritarian impulses. It is all well and good for the ethicist to assume the high moral ground and issue instructions like a philosopher-king or a Whitehall Mandarin, but social ethics contains an irremediably democratic element. If others aren’t persuaded by the conclusions ethicists have reached, the policies they recommend ought to take those others’ ethical viewpoints into account."