Good evening. I am back to topics that were more typical of my pre-Lent writing, and today we’ll look at Kuznets curves, a foundational idea in environmental economics. An environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) is the hypothesis that some environmental impact, be it air pollution, water pollution, or whatever, tends to rise with a country’s wealth to a point, but when wealth rises beyond that point, impacts level off and decline. This will be mostly about EKC, but we’ll look at a few other Kuznets curve hypotheses. For readers who work with this material, this post may be mostly review, and for everyone else, I hope it is a helpful introduction to an important topic.
April 6, 2024: Kuznets Curves
April 6, 2024: Kuznets Curves
April 6, 2024: Kuznets Curves
Good evening. I am back to topics that were more typical of my pre-Lent writing, and today we’ll look at Kuznets curves, a foundational idea in environmental economics. An environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) is the hypothesis that some environmental impact, be it air pollution, water pollution, or whatever, tends to rise with a country’s wealth to a point, but when wealth rises beyond that point, impacts level off and decline. This will be mostly about EKC, but we’ll look at a few other Kuznets curve hypotheses. For readers who work with this material, this post may be mostly review, and for everyone else, I hope it is a helpful introduction to an important topic.