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The national accounts have been established with the object of providing an overall picture of the economy within the framework of a coherent system. They show how income, which is generated as a result of a production process, is distributed and redistributed, prior to resulting in demands for commodities and services for consumption and investment. The system also makes it possible to describe the financial transactions linked hereto, as well as the stocks of real and financial assets and liabilities which exist at the beginning and end of the period, respectively.
This paper was originally prepared by the author for a Danish government report: “Statistical analysis of economic activity and the environment”. The main report, which was published in October 1990, is in Danish only, but an English summary is available.
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Thage, B. (1993). The National Accounts and the Environment. In: Franz, A., Stahmer, C. (eds) Approaches to Environmental Accounting. Contributions to Economics. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49977-7_16
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