Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Economic Growth and the Environment; 1.2 Efficiency, Equity, and Global Warming; 1.2.1 Efficiency; 1.2.2 Intra-generational Equity; 1.2.3 Intergenerational Equity; 1.3 Features and Organization of the Brief; References; 2 Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis; 2.1 Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis; 2.2 Literature Review (1): Empirical Research; 2.3 Literature Review (2): Theoretical Research; 2.4 The Model with Stock Pollutants; 2.5 Problems with the Environmental Kuznets Curve; 2.5.1 Conceptual and Theoretical Aspects

2.5.2 Empirical AspectsReferences; 3 Empirical Analysis of the Environmental Kuznets Curve; 3.1 Data Sources; 3.2 Stationarity of Panel Data; 3.2.1 Panel Unit Roots Tests; 3.2.2 Panel Cointegration Tests; 3.3 Estimation of the Environmental Kuznets Curve; 3.3.1 Estimation Methods; 3.3.2 Estimation (1): Static Panel Data Model; 3.3.3 Estimation (2): Dynamic Panel Data (Arellano and Bond) Model; 3.4 Some Comments on the Turning Point; References; 4 Concluding Remarks; 4.1 Summary of the Study; 4.2 Further Research; 4.3 Toward the Stationary State of John Stuart Mill; References

Appendix A Stokey Model with Accumulative PollutantAppendix B Nonstationary Panel Data; Appendix C Model Specification Test; Further Reading