Welfare Measurement, Sustainability and Green National Accounting: A Growth Theoretical Approach (New Horizons in Environmental Economics series) - Hardcover

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson, Per-Olav; Löfgren, Karl-Gustaf

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1858984858 ISBN 13: 9781858984858

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1997

Synopsis

Extends the usual analysis of social accounting by including technological change, externalities, and uncertainty, analyzing welfare measurement, sustainability, and green accounting within general equilibrium models. Examines welfare measurement in the presence of technological change and external effects which complicate green accounting, and discusses external effects arising from investments in human capital and their implications for welfare measurement. For graduate students and professionals in economics. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas Aronsson, Professor of Economics, Umea University, Sweden, Per-Olov Johansson, Professor of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden and Karl-Gustaf Loefgren, Professor of Economics, Umea University, Sweden

Review:

`This is definitely a book for graduate students and researchers in the field, as a large number of different economic theories are drawn upon. . . . The book is well structured; the reader is led through the concepts, issues and theories in a logical order, with each chapter leading neatly on from and building upon the ideas presented in the previous chapters.' -- Helena Titheridge, Environmental Politics `The book mixes in a nice way the authors' own research with the findings of others. The authors have made many important contributions to the field that the book covers, and it is useful to have these collected in a monograph. . . . This book is well-written, produced by experts in the field and can be recommended to anyone with a genuine interest in the problems of green national accounting.' -- G.B. Asheim, Journal of Economics `The book is good reading for those interested in microeconomic themes and particularly to those interested in intertemporal models of economic analysis. It provides considerable insight into the problems and importance of a social accounting process.' -- Tapan Biswas, The Economic Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1858984858
• ISBN 13: 9781858984858
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192