Similar Search Results

Economic growth and the environment : on the measurement of income and welfare

Brekke, Kjell Arne - 1997

This book considers the possibility of adjusting traditional economic measures of income and welfare to account for natural resource extraction and environmental degradation. It presents and reviews the limitations of an operational method for measuring income from resource extraction in both...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015412739

Sustainable welfare in the Asia-Pacific : studies using the genuine progress indicator

Lawn, Philip A. (ed.); Clarke, Matthew (ed.) - 2008

Frequent references are made to the 'Asian economic miracle' as a means of describing the wave of GDP growth experienced across the Asia-Pacific region over the past twenty years. Implicit in this description is the assumption that the Asia-Pacific region has progressed at the same rate that GDP...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474049

Green national accounting and sustainability

Löfgren, Karl-Gustaf - 2011

(2), June, 257-65 -- Martin L. Weitzman (2001), 'A Contribution to the Theory of Welfare Accounting', Scandinavian … G.M. Heal (1979), 'The Optimal Depletion of Exhaustible Resources', in Economic Theory and Exhaustible Resources ….M. (1936), The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, London: Macmillan. -- King, G. ([1688]1936), (a) Natural and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852308

Technology, development and democracy : limits of national innovation systems in the age of postmodernism

Khan, Haider Ali - 1998

progress and economic growth? In answer to this question, Technology, Development and Democracy examines the possibility of … explored both in theory and using empirical evidence. The author examines the theoretical arguments which describe an …, particularly the relationship between economy and democracy. Technology, Development and Democracy will be invaluable to students …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015412562

The Economics of growth and technical change : technologies, nations, agents

Silverberg, Gerald (ed.); Soete, Luc (ed.) - 1994

Technical change and its relationship to economic growth are now at the forefront of research in economics. This important book - which contains contributions from leading economists - provides an invaluable state-of-the-art survey and analysis of the most recent work in this area. The book...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015412574

The dynamics of technology, trade and growth

Fagerberg, Jan (ed.); Verspagen, Bart (ed.); … - 1994

emergence of the new growth theory, few neoclassical economists focused upon this important issue despite the existence of a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015412761

The economics of wealth creation : proceedings of Section F (Economics) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Plymouth, 1991

Ball, R. J. (ed.) - British Association for the Advancement of Science … - 1992

This important book explores many different aspects of the wealth creation process. It includes new essays by senior members of the economics profession focusing on aspects of competitive advantage, the environment, the integration of trade, manufacturing and services, the policies of wealth...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015412776

Knowledge, inequality, and growth in the new economy

Nahuis, Richard - 2003

During the past two centuries, major technological breakthroughs such as the steam engine and electricity have acted as the catalysts for growth and have resulted in a marked increase in material well-being. The dominant technology today - information and communication technology (ICT) - does...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474134

Knowledge, technological catch-up and economic growth

Rogers, Mark - 2003

Knowledge, Technological Catch-up and Economic Growth investigates the relationship between knowledge diffusion and economic growth. Using a broad definition of knowledge - encompassing technology, production skills, know-how and firm capabilities - the central argument of the book is that the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473801

Environment, technology and economic growth : the challenge to sustainable development

Tylecote, Andrew (ed.); Straaten, Jan van der (ed.) - 1997

At the end of the 20th century economists and policymakers face an unprecedented dual challenge: to avert ecological disaster and to end mass unemployment by accelerating and redirecting world economic growth. This major volume brings together contributions from environmental and technological...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473910