Quantitative Eco-nomics: How sustainable are our economies?

摘要: Part I: Questions, Questions.- 1. What on Earth is wrong?- 1:1 Paradise lost.- 1:2 Environmental doomsday and international reaction.- 1:3 Reaching the limits?- 2. What's economics got to do with it?- 2:1 Economics out of sync?- 2:2 Schools eco-nomic thought.- 2:3 Economic sustainability: maintaining capital welfare.- 2:4 Ecological dematerialisation.- 3. Sustainable development - blueprint or fig Leaf?- 3:1 development?- 3:2 Towards an operational definition sustainable development.- 3:3 Normative for II: Assessing Physical Base Economy.- 4. Statistics indicators.- 4:1 Statistical frameworks.- 4:2 From statistics indicators 'for' 4:3 Global warming: indicator 'of' (non)sustainable 5. Aggregation: indices.- 5:1 Aggregation methods.- 5:2 Indices environmental sustainability 5:3 Critique: towards a 'balanced' approach.- 6. Energy material flow accounting.- 6:1 Rationale: social metabolism sustainability.- 6:2 6:3 Material III: Greening Accounts.- 7. Linking physical monetary accounts.- 7:1 Measures economic welfare wealth.- 7:2 Extending national accounts: incorporating nature's assets.- 7:3 Hybrid expanding production boundary.- 8. SEEA System Integrated Accounting.- 8:1 Pricing priceless.- 8:2 objectives, structure 8:3 Case studies.- 8:4 revision.- 9. Corporate accounting: accounting accountability.- 9:1 accountability 9:2 management.- IV: Analysis Modelling Sustainability.- 10. Diagnosis: has economy behaved sustainably?- 10:1 Welfare secured? Dematerialised? Capital maintained?- 10:2 are causes? Structural analysis impact.- 11. Prediction: will growth be sustainable?- 11:1 Econometrics: Kuznets Curve Hypothesis.- 11:2 Simulation non-sustainability: Limits-to-Growth model.- 12. Policy analysis: can we make 12:1 policy measures in general equilibrium input-output analysis.- 12:2 constraints optimality linear programming 12:3 Dynamic growth.- V: Strategic Outlook.- 13. Strategies: tackling limits 13:1 Ignoring limits: muddling through.- 13:2 Complying curbing activity.- 13:3 Pushing eco-efficiency.- 13:4 Adopting sufficiency, corporate responsibility, ethics.- 14. Globalisation global governance.- 14:1 Sustainability effects globalisation.- 14:2 governance 15. questions, questions some answers.- 15:1 problem?- 15:2 15:3 How bad 15:4 done?- 15:5 Some non-conclusive Annexes.- I. Market failure cost internalisation primer.- II. rent natural resource depletion.- III. Germany pilot case study.- References.- Index.- Colour Plates.