Counting Nonmarket, Ecological Public Goods: The Elements of a Welfare-Significant Ecological Quantity Index

James Boyd

Chapter 5 in Is Economic Growth Sustainable?, 2010, pp 145-167 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter addresses a difficult, important, and long-standing problem in national income accounting: How do we capture the welfare contributions of nonmarket, public environmental goods?1 As I argue here, the key to this endeavor is the construction of a welfare-significant ecological quantity index (WSEQI). Quantity indexes and their price index counterparts are the core of any national income or product account (NIPA).

Keywords: Gross Domestic Product; Ecological Economic; Environmental Accounting; Quantity Index; Economic Account (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230274280_6

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