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Valuing the future : economic theory and sustainability

G. M. Heal
Heal presents a coherent framework for understanding the Earth's future from an economic perspective and offers a dynamic new blueprint for comprehending sustainability.
Print Book, English, ©1998
Columbia University Press, New York, ©1998
xiii, 226 p. : il. ; 24 cm.
9780231113076, 9780231113069, 0231113072, 0231113064
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Appendix Project evaluation National welfare Measuring national income Policy issues Capital and renewable resources Exhaustibility and accumulation Capital accumulation Investment in a backstop Renewable resources revisited Depletion revisited Alternatives to utilitarianism A broader perspective Renewable resources Valuing a depletable stock The classical formulation Sustainability within a classical framework