Wealth, Welfare and Sustainability

Kirk Hamilton and Giles Atkinson

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Abstract: This important book presents fresh thinking and new results on the measurement of sustainable development. Economic theory suggests that there should be a link between future wellbeing and current wealth. This book explores this linkage under a variety of headings: population growth, technological change, deforestation and natural resource trade. While the relevant theory is presented briefly, the chief emphasis is on empirical measurement of the change in real wealth: this measure of net or ‘genuine’ saving is a key indicator of sustainable development. The methodological and empirical work is bolstered by tests of the predictive power of genuine saving in explaining future consumption and economic growth. Just as importantly, the authors show that many resource-abundant countries would be considerably wealthier today had they managed to save and invest the profits from natural resource exploitation in the past.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
ISBN: 9781843765769
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