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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Kirk Hamilton; Cameron Hepburn |
ISBN: | 9780198803720 0198803729 |
OCLC Number: | 983824764 |
Description: | xxiv, 468 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The political economy of national statistics / Diane Coyle -- A tight connection among wealth, income, sustainability, and accounting in an ultra-simplified setting / Martin L. Weitzman -- Wealth and happiness / Claudia Senik -- A sustainable century? Genuine savings in developing and developed countries, 1900-2000 / Matthias Blum, Cristián Ducoing, and Eoin McLaughlin -- Household wealth trends in the US, 1983 to 2010 / Edward N. Wolff -- Historical wealth accounts for Britain: progress and puzzles in measuring the sustainability of economic growth / Eoin McLaughlin, Nick Hanley, David Greasely, Jan Kunnas, Les Oxley, and Paul Warde -- Wealth, top incomes, and inequality / Frank Cowell, Brian Nolan, Javier Olivera, and Philippe Van Kern -- Wealth creation and the entrepreneurial state / Mariana Mazzucato -- Recording environmental assets in the national accounts and the Australian experience / Carl Obst and Michael Vardon -- Human capital, tangible wealth, and the intangible capital residual / Kirk Hamilton and Gang Liu -- Social capital, trust, and well-being in the evaluation of wealth / Kirk Hamilton, John F. Helliwell, and Michael Woolcock -- Infrastructure: political economy of wealth creation / Michael Klein -- Cities, wealth, and the era of urbanization / Dimitri Zenghelis -- Wealth and sustainability / Kirk Hamilton and John Hartwick -- Sustainable economic growth and the role of natural capital / Dieter Helm -- Finance, wealth, technological innovation, and regulation / Colin Mayer -- The economics of sovereign wealth funds / Rolando Ossowski and Håvard Halland -- Sustainable management of natural resource wealth / Rick van der Ploeg. |
Responsibility: | edited by Kirk Hamilton and Cameron Hepburn. |
Abstract:
To understand economics, it is crucial to define wealth, and understand how it is created, destroyed, stored and managed. This edited volume assembles high-quality contributions defining key concepts and addressing economic and policy issues around national wealth.
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