There has been widespread debate about whether the way in which we measure economic
activity is fit for purpose in the twenty-first century. One aspect of this debate is to move away …

Genuine Savings (GS) has emerged as the leading economic indicator of sustainable
economic development at the country level. It derives from the literatures on weak …

Wealth is a stock, not a flow. The country with the highest flow of GDP in a particular year is
not necessarily the richest country. The richest country has the highest capital stock, whether …

For economists in 1974, it was a live question whether the exhaustion of natural resources,
such as oil, would necessarily lead to the decline of economic activity. Solow showed that …

Genuine Savings has emerged as a widely-used indicator of sustainable development. This
approach to conceptualising what sustainability is about has strong links to work published …

We study genuine savings as an indicator of long-term welfare for Sweden for the period
1850 to 2000. Sweden has developed long series of comprehensive 'green'national …

We construct long-run sustainability indicators based on changes in Comprehensive Wealth-
which we refer to as Genuine Savings (GS)-for Germany over the period 1850-2000. We find …

The current model of economic growth generated unprecedented increases in human
wealth and prosperity during the 19th and 20th centuries. The main mechanisms have been …

We introduce a new database of historical Genuine Savings (GS), an indicator of
sustainable development promoted by the World Bank and widely used in contemporary …

Along with information and communication technology, infrastructure, and the innovation
system, human capital is a key pillar of the knowledge economy with its scope for increasing …