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Green Accounting Bibliography: December 2002

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Citations

"A knight's errand: Sir Crispin Tickell addresses students on dangers facing environment," Harvard Gazette, 12 December 2002. [full text]

In a talk at Harvard, Sir Crispin Tickell emphasizes the importance of looking at ecological footprints and of coming up with a new sort of economics that takes environmental costs into consideration. "The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment," he said. "Communism collapsed because it didn't recognize markets. Capitalism may collapse because it doesn't recognize ecology."

Posted by Gernot Wagner on 12/12/2002. 0 comments. Permanent link.  

Moss, David A. and Sarah Brennan. 2002. "National Economic Accounting: Past, Present, and Future," Harvard Business School Case 9-703-026. [order case from publisher]

Synopsis: Presents the fundamentals of GDP accounting (including definitions, etc.), examines the history of national accounting, and surveys the international debate over "Green GDP." The first section explains the basic rules and definitions of national economic accounting and the meaning of GDP versus NDP. The second section provides historical context for the development of national income estimates, 1886 to 1940, culminating in the creation of GNP by the U.S. Department of Commerce in the 1940s. The third and final section discusses the standard imputations currently made to reflect nonprice economic activity (e.g., for owner-occupied housing and government services) and explores the debate over imputations for natural resources and environmental quality.

Posted by Gernot Wagner on 12/04/2002. 0 comments. Permanent link.  

Asheim, Geir B. "Green National Accounting for Welfare and Sustainability: A Taxonomy of Assumptions and Results." Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research Working Paper Series Nr. 827, December 2002. [full text]

Abstract: This paper summarizes assumptions made and results obtained in parts of the literature on welfare and sustainability accounting. I consider five different assumptions that can be imposed independently of each other, producing 32 different combinations. This taxonomy is used to organize results in welfare and sustainability accounting. The analysis illustrates how stronger results require stronger assumptions and thereby impose harder informational requirements.

Posted by Gernot Wagner on 12/01/2002. 0 comments. Permanent link.  

Kletzan, Daniela; Köppl, Angela; Kratena, Kurt and Wüger, Michael. "Economic Modelling of Sustainable Structures in Private Consumption: An Analysis of Heating and Transport." Austrian Institute of Economic Research, December 2002.

Abstract: Changes in consumption processes are increasingly recognised as important steps towards sustainable development. The empirical study for Austria aims at integrating aspects of sustainable consumption into economic modelling. This is done within a microeconomic consumption model using household production functions for the relevant services for mobility and heating. In contrast to a strictly neo-classical model, in this approach capital stock adjustment is not solely determined by relative prices but institutional and non-economic factors as well. The demand for goods and services is then the result of the decisions with respect to the capital stock.

Posted by Gernot Wagner on 12/01/2002. 0 comments. Permanent link.