TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hamilton,Kirk
AU  - Atkinson,Giles
ED  - Edward Elgar Publishing.
TI  - Wealth, welfare and sustainability: advances in measuring sustainable development 
SN  - 9781847202970 (e-book)
AV  - HD75.6 .H36 2006
U1  - 338.9 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Cheltenham, U.K., Northampton, Mass.
PB  - Edward Elgar
KW  - Sustainable development
KW  - Wealth
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-189) and index; 1. Introduction -- 2. Wealth and social welfare -- 3. Population growth and sustainability -- 4. Testing genuine saving -- 5. Resources, growth and the "paradox of plenty" -- 6. A Hartwick Rule counterfactual -- 7. Deforestation : accounting for a multiple-use resource -- 8. Accounting for technological change -- 9. Resource price trends and prospects for development -- 10. International flows of resource rents -- 11. Summary and conclusions
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781843765769.xml
ER  -