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Green national accounting with a changing population

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Asheim, Geir () (Dept. of Economics, University of Oslo)

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Following Arrow et al. (2003), this paper considers green national accounting when population is changing and instantaneous well-being depends not only on per capita consumption, but also population size. It is shown that welfare improvement can be indicated by an expanded “genuine savings indicator”, which also takes into account the total value of population growth, or by an expanded measure of real NNP growth. Practical ways of approximating these measured are discussed. By assuming constant returns to scale, the measures can be related to the value of per capita stock changes and per capita NNP growth, using a result due to Arrow et al. (2003). The result are compared to those arising when instantaneous well-being depends only on per capita consumption, and not on population size.

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Paper provided by Oslo University, Department of Economics in its series Memorandum with number 06/2003.

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Length: 23 pages
Date of creation: 30 Jan 2003
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Handle: RePEc:hhs:osloec:2003_006

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Keywords: National accounting; Population; Dynamic welfare; Sustainability;

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D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
D90 - Microeconomics - - Intertemporal Choice and Growth - - - General
O47 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Measurement of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development

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  1. Asheim, Geir B. & Weitzman, Martin L., 2001. "Does NNP growth indicate welfare improvement?," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 73(2), pages 233-239, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. Kenneth J. Arrow & Partha Dasgupta & Karl-Göran Mäler, 2003. "The genuine savings criterion and the value of population," Economic Theory, Springer, vol. 21(2), pages 217-225, 03. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Dasgupta, Partha, 2001. "Valuing Objects and Evaluating Policies in Imperfect Economies," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 111(471), pages C1-29, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  4. Dasgupta, Partha S, 1969. "On the Concept of Optimum Population," Review of Economic Studies, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 36(107), pages 295-318, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  5. Blackorby, Charles & Donaldson, David, 1984. "Social criteria for evaluating population change," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 25(1-2), pages 13-33, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  6. Geir B. Asheim & Wolfgang Buchholz, 2004. "A General Approach to Welfare Measurement through National Income Accounting," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 106(2), pages 361-384, 06. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  3. Asheim, Geir B., 2005. "Welfare comparisons between societies with different population sizes and environmental characteristics," Memorandum 25/2005, Oslo University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  7. Asheim, Geir, 2003. "Green national accounting for welfare and sustainability: A taxonomy of assumptions and results," Memorandum 31/2002, Oslo University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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