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Wealth, Saving and Sustainability

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Deriving conceptually sound and useful indicators of sustainable development has been a challenge, not least because sustainability is inherently a concern about the future. Yet the question of indicators is key: without some means to quantify progress towards sustainability, all of the policy commitments by governments and institutions to achieving sustainable development risk becoming empty promises.

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  1. Columbia Business School, USA

    Geoffrey Heal (Paul Garrett Professor Of Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility) (Paul Garrett Professor Of Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility)

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Hamilton, K. (2010). Wealth, Saving and Sustainability. In: Heal, G. (eds) Is Economic Growth Sustainable?. International Economic Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230274280_4

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