Green National Accounting: Why and How?

Geir Asheim

No 156, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: The present paper gives an overview of the theory of green national accounting. Three purposes of green national accounting (measurement of sustainable income, social welfare, or net social profit) and two measures (Green NNP and Hicksian income) are considered. It is argued that sustainable income and social welfare correspond to different purposes. Under the assumption of no exogenous technological progress, Green NNP is shown to equal Hicksian income if there is a constant interest rate or if consumption is constant. It is established as a general result that sustainable income

Date: 1998
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