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Green Accounting in Imperfect Market Economies

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  • Thomas Aronsson
  • Karl-Gustaf Löfgren

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The idea of measuring the national welfare level by using the green NNP (net national product) has gained much attention lately. This paper summarizes the research on social accounting in imperfect market economies by putting the results into a unified framework. The main contribution of the paper is to relate the form of the national welfare measure to the functioning of the economic system and, therefore, to explicitly address the informational requirements implicit in social accounting. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998

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  • Thomas Aronsson & Karl-Gustaf Löfgren, 1998. "Green Accounting in Imperfect Market Economies," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 11(3), pages 273-287, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:enreec:v:11:y:1998:i:3:p:273-287
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1008253831365
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