China's massive and long-term pollution problem is putting an economic thesis to the test. The theory, known as the environmental Kuznets curve, contends that the environment must suffer in order for ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In a widely cited paper, Andreoni and Levinson (2001) argue that, under very mild restrictions on preferences, increasing returns to scale in ...

Via Economic Logic, there’s new research on the Kuznets Curve. As originally formulated, the idea is that income inequality in a society grows as economies initially transition from agricultural to ...