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100 1 _aHamilton, Kirk,
_d1951-
245 1 0 _aWealth, welfare and sustainability
_h[electronic resource] :
_badvances in measuring sustainable development /
_cKirk Hamilton, Giles Atkinson.
260 _aCheltenham, U.K. ;
_aNorthampton, Mass. :
_bEdward Elgar,
_c2006.
300 _a1 online resource (xii, 201 p.) :
_bill.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 179-189) and index.
505 0 _a1. 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.
520 _aThis 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.
650 0 _aSustainable development.
650 0 _aWealth
_xSocial aspects.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
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700 1 _aAtkinson, Giles,
_d1969-
710 2 _aEdward Elgar Publishing.
776 1 _z1843765764 ($100.00)
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