Abstract
Economic analysis presents climate change as a collective action problem, a market failure, or a problem about the allocation or distribution of property rights. Mark Sagoff argues that it is none of these. Economic theory cannot provide a useful wayeither a model, method, or metaphorto think about climate change. The reasons to reduce greenhouse gases are not economic, but ethical.
How to Cite:
Sagoff, M.,
(2010) “The Poverty of Economic Reasoning about Climate Change”,
Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly 30(3/4),
8–15.
doi: https://doi.org/10.13021/G8pppq.302010.89