Economic analysis of environmental problems often requires us to evaluate policies with very long run, highly uncertainty consequences. This course covers developments in the theory of intertemporal choice and choice under uncertainty and their applications in environmental economics. Topics include social discounting, intergenerational ethics, precautionary policies, learning, ambiguity, and catastrophic risks.
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UnitsLetter
Grading1, 2, 3
PasstimeGraduate students only
Level LimitLetters and science
CollegeDidn't attend a single lecture but got an A+. The exams were chill.
I never had this Professor luckily, but when I was reviewing midterm and final exam questions from previous years, his exams were disgusting. I recommend taking 10a with any other professor.
class isnt really useful, make sure you do old exams and you'll be fine
Wrote a ridiculously hard final. Got 80% and 100% on the midterms so I was okay, but seemed like the FRQ questions on our final were harder than almost any of the previous tests available for practice. Make sure to do well on midterm 1, everything after that is much harder.
The final sucked the soul out of my body after getting 8/10 and 10/10 on the midterms. Hope the professor or the department is going to do something about it. Nothing like the practice ones; no cost minimization, no utility maximizing, and no profit maximizing-- just pure random word vomit from the depths of some forbidden problem bank.
Finished with an A+... That being said, I definitely had to work for it.
Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare
2.1
Peter Kuhn
4.0