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SUMMARY:International Paretianism: a palatable response to climate change?
  - Katie Steele (LSE)
DTSTART:20150506T120000Z
DTEND:20150506T133000Z
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CONTACT:Christopher Clarke
DESCRIPTION:International Paretianism (IP) is billed as the positive and f
 easible response to international problems such as climate change (see\, e
 specially\, Posner and Weisbach 2010). In the tradition of public\ngoods e
 conomics\, climate change is depicted as a collective-action problem for n
 ation states\, where the current 'business-as-usual' arrangement is Pareto
  inferior to some alternative involving climate-change mitigation. Accordi
 ng to IP\, a global climate deal\nshould be framed to achieve such a Paret
 o improvement (making no state worse off). Critics argue\, however\, that 
 such a deal would not be adequately just\, and moreover\, to the extent th
 at it supports substantial mitigation\, IP involves inconsistent claims ab
 out\nfeasibility. This paper contributes to the debate by initially clarif
 ying what would be achieved by an IP response to climate change\, under va
 rious assumptions about the game theoretic structure of the problem and tw
 o possible stances on feasibility. The further\nconsideration is whether a
 n IP deal plausibly has some merit\, however minimal\, in terms of advanci
 ng justice.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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