Two Major Policies of the United Nations International trade can increase both beneficial and harmful choices available to consumers and to firms. The debate about appropriate technology warned us to pay attention to pre-consumption choices. Later work on sustainable development alerted us to be equally prudent about post-consumption effects. While it is agreed that the product life cycle approach is highly useful for sustainable development, explicit attention must also be given to the consumer, to the consumption period, and to the appropriate ness of the product itself. Information on inappropriate products, especially on pharmaceutical exports, demonstrates that emerging markets provide special opportunities for those who sell dangerous or useless products.
International action is required.
T his paper assesses two initiatives of the United Nations evaluating them as methods for implementing the Appropriate Products concept. This paper proposes a definition of uncertainty aversion for nonprobabilistic decision models and characterizes the decision rules that are uncertainty averse in that sense. Dual results are obtained for uncertainty appeal, and it is shown that imposing a n uncertainty neutrality condition leads to an impossibility result. Decision Theory, Uncertainty Aversion. Population size in period two is endogenous.