Resource productivity and economic wealth

Erich Hödl

Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft - WuG, 2017, vol. 43, issue 2, 297-304

Abstract: High economic growth in industrialised countries is questioned by growing ecological limits and the consumption-reducing effect of rising capital intensity of economic growth. Referring to the Europe 2020 Strategy it is shown by modern economic growth theory, that a vigorous rise of resource productivity by a resource-saving innovation system can assure high economic welfare without high economic growth. In the knowledge economy higher resource productivity will augment employment and wages without reducing the profit rate on the reduced capital stock. By augmenting resource and capital productivity more than labour productivity the productive system as the transformation instrument between nature and consumption can become smaller and depending on the desired level of consumption in industrial countries real capital exports to developing countries can augment.

Date: 2017
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://emedien.arbeiterkammer.at/viewer/pdf/AC088 ... g_2017_43_2_0297.pdf PDF-file of article (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:clr:wugarc:y:2017v:43i:2p:297

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien, Abt. WW-Stat., Prinz Eugen Strasse 20-22, 1040 Wien Austria
http://www.wirtschaftundgesellschaft.at

Access Statistics for this article

Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft - WuG is currently edited by Markus Marterbauer

More articles in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft - WuG from Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien, Abteilung Wirtschaftswissenschaft und Statistik Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Michael Birkner ().