Historical wealth accounts for Britain: progress and puzzles in measuring the sustainability of economic growth
McLaughlin, Eoin ; Hanley, Nick ; Greasley, David ; Kunnas, Jan ; Oxley, Les ; Warde, Paul
Oxford Review of Economic Policy
2014
30
1
Spring
44-69
capital resources ; history ; saving ; statistics ; wealth
Income distribution
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/gru002
English
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"Estimates of Britain's comprehensive wealth are reported for the period 1760–2000. They include measures of produced, natural, and human capital, and illustrate the changing composition of Britain's assets over this time period. We show how genuine savings, GS (a year-on-year measure of the change in total capital and a claimed indicator of sustainable development) has evolved over time. Changes in total wealth are compared to alternative, investment-based measures of GS, including variants augmented with the value of exogenous technology. Additionally, the possible effects of population change on wealth, and the implications of including carbon-dioxide emissions in natural capital are considered."
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