The starting point of the paper is the finding that the Gross National Product (GNP) entails in growing proportions, economic activities that are not real benefits of the economic process, but in fact, incremental costs of production and consumption. The paper examines the empirical evidence for...

This paper presents an overview of the role of environmental protection expenditures in National Accounting systems. The main objective is to assess the extent to which an adjusted System of National Accounts (SNA) provides a valid and reliable data source for the empirical estimation of...

This paper presents an overview of the role of environmental protection expenditures in National Accounting systems. The main objective is to assess the extent to which an adjusted System of National Accounts (SNA) provides a valid and reliable data source for the empirical estimation of...

This paper is based on empirical data of the IIUG project “Environment and the National Accounts”. A more extensive and detailed report on this project was recently published by Andreas Ryll and Sabine Wadewitz: “Zur Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnung des monetären Umweltschutzes...