ETH Summer School "The Economics of Sustainable Development"

The course covers major economic theories and empirical applications, which are relevant for the current sustainability debate. Efficiency and intergenerational equity, natural resource depletion, harvesting renewable resources, endogenous (induced) capital and knowledge accumulation, pollution dynamics and abatement, population growth, trade, and similar issues are the focal points of the lecture. The course applies basic methods of modern intertemporal economics and statistics to an increasingly active research field. The results of applying both neoclassical and new growth theory are presented and extensively discussed.