Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/63076 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
Memorandum No. 2002,32
Publisher: 
University of Oslo, Department of Economics, Oslo
Abstract: 
We develop a framework for analyzing national income accounting using a revealed welfare approach that is sufficiently general to cover, e.g., both the standard discounted utilitarian and maximin criteria as special cases. We show that the basic welfare properties of comprehensive national income accounting, which were previously ascribed only to the discounted utilitarian case, in fact extend to this more general framework. In particular, it holds under a wide range of circumstances that real nnp growth (or equivalently, a positive value of net investments) indicates welfare improvement. We illustrate the applicability of our approach by considering resource allocation mechanisms in the Dasgupta-Heal-Solow model of capital accumulation and resource depletion.
Subjects: 
National income accounting
dynamic welfare
JEL: 
C43
O47
Q01
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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