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52 Diener and Biswas-Diener (2008), 224.

53 Csikszentmilhalyi, 160.

54 Haidt (2006), 177.

55 Barrington-Leigh et al. (2010).

56 Frey and Stutzer (2007) and Saint-Paul (2011).

57 See also Sen (1999a).

NOTES TO CHAPTER TWO


1 Orwell (1937), part I, section 6. “Dripping” is the fat collected from meat as it cooks.

2 IPCC (2009).

3 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/gore-lecture_en.html.

4 Buckley and Mityakoff (2009).

5 Surveys are included in Stern (2007) and Stern (2009).

6 Stern (2009), 13.

7 This inability is well-demonstrated in a China Daily assessment, “Blame Failure of Copenhagen Summit on Denmark, not China,” Martin Khor (2010).

8 “India Opts for Voluntary Cuts on Emissions,” Financial Times, 4 December 2009.

9 http://www.pollingreport.com/enviro.htm, accessed 7 April 2010.

10 http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/poll.aspx? oItemId=2552.

11 Listed in letter from David Henderson to Financial Times, 7 April 2010.

12 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/20/ipcc-himalayan-glaciers-mistake. See also http://www.interacademycouncil.net/?id=12852. Submissions were provided to the author by David Henderson, Gordon Hughes, and Ross McKitrick.

13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2010/feb/02/climate-change-hacked-emails.

14 I. Castles and P. D. Henderson (2003 a, b).

15 McKitrick (2007).

16 Nordhaus (2007).

17 Nordhaus (2007).

18 Conference on Global Climate Change, (2007) Robert Mendelsohn, “Climate Policy: Minimizing the Present Value of the Sum of the Abatement Costs and Climate Change Damages for All Time”; Gilbert Metcalf, “Distributional Consequences of Policies to Mitigate Warming Effects by Excise Taxes for Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the United States”; Peter Wilcoxen, “Economic Analysis of Policy Choices for Dealing with Climate Change”; Ross McKitrick, “Response to David Henderson’s ‘Governments and Climate Change Issues: The Flawed Consensus.’” http://www.aier.org/research/conferences/climate-change.

19 McKitrick (2007).

20 Nordhaus (2007), 21.

21 Dasgupta (2006), 8.

22 Stern (2009), 71.

23 See for example Hepburn and Klemperer (2006).

24 Brundtlandt (1987).

25 Dasgupta (2009a), 28.

26 Solow (1992).

27 Collier (2010).

28 See http://www.teebweb.org/; accessed 10 May 2010; and also http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10103179.stm; accessed 10 May 2010.

29 Sen (2009a), 251.

30 Dasgupta (2010), Diamond (2005); Homer-Dixon (1999); Collier (2010).

31 Partha Dasgupta (2010), 7.

32 See Hamilton and Clemens (1999), Dasgupta and Mäler (2000), Arrow et al. (2003, 2004), Dasgupta (2009b) for increasingly general treatments.

33 Dasgupta (2009a), 42.

34 Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (Sen et al. [2009], 67).

NOTES TO CHAPTER THREE


1 Quoted by Achenbach (2010).

2 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-on-Financial-Rescue-and-Reform-at-Federal-Hall.

3 It is a textbook example of the collapse of a market due to asymmetric information set out in a classic article by George Akerlof (1970).

4 IMF, World Economic Outlook, (April 2009), 203.

5 See also IMF http://www.imf.org/external/np/speeches/2010/032110.htm; accessed 14 April 2010.

6 Gokhale and Smetters (2003); accessed 1 April 2010.

7 United Nations Population Division, “Completing the Fertility Transition,” 2002 conference, http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/completingfertility/completingfertility.htm, containing the following papers: “The Future of Fertility in Intermediate-Fertility Countries,” http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/completingfertility/RevisedPEPSPOPDIVpaper.PDF, also “Eamining Changes in the Status of Women and Gender as Predictors of Fertility Change Issues in Intermediate-Fertility Countries.” http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/completingfertility/RevisedCosio-Zavalapaper.PDF.

8 Sen (1990).

9 OECD (2006b), 42.

10 Willetts (2010), 253.

11 OECD (2006a), EU Projections European

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