The Social Discount Rate

The Social Discount Rate

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Cowen, Discount Rates Table, Stubborn Attachments (1 page) gives a quick sense of how even a “modest” discount rate effectively wipes out the significance of the long term future.
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Parfit, Reasons and Persons, Appendix F (7 pages) for arguments against the social discount rate.

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