There is controversy surrounding so-called 'weak sustainability measures'which attemp to measure sustainability according to current chages in manufactured and natural capital. In the framework of a dynamic control model, these measures are related to the rate of change of the utility of a time-discounting social planner. We discuss the extent to which the criticism remain valid one this interpretation is adopted.
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