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Correspondence
Nature 420, 605 (12 December 2002) | doi:10.1038/420605c
What has posterity done for us? It's not the point
Ken Caldeira1
- Climate and Carbon Cycle Group, Energy and Environment Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, L-103, Livermore, California 94550, USA
To understand why many physical scientists regard economists with scepticism, one need look no further than the Concepts essay on discounting ("An eye on the future" Nature 419, 673–674; 2002) by L. H.
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