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Optimal Economic Growth When Co2 Constraints are Critical

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Past analyses of optimal economic growth behaviour have neglected the constraints of fossil fuel production and the accumulation of atmospheric CO2 having a negative impact on production and productivity, as pursued in the more general context of Chapter 7.

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Gottinger, H.W. (1998). Optimal Economic Growth When Co2 Constraints are Critical. In: Global Environmental Economics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5435-6_8

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