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Environmental economics

the argument that fat-tailed uncertainty about catastrophic climate outcomes can make expected losses unbounded, undermining standard cost-benefit analysis.

In environmental economics, dismal theorem refers to the argument that fat-tailed uncertainty about catastrophic climate outcomes can make expected losses unbounded, undermining standard cost-benefit analysis. This meaning comes from Weitzman (2009) in Review of Economics and Statistics.[1]

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References

Weitzman, M. L. (2009). On Modeling and Interpreting the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change. Review of Economics and Statistics, 91(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest.91.1.1

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