National Wealth
What is Missing, Why it Matters
Edited by Kirk Hamilton and Cameron Hepburn
Table of Contents
Part One: Concepts
1. Introduction, Kirk Hamilton and Cameron Hepburn
2. The Political Economy of National Statistics, Diane Coyle
3. A Tight Connection Among Wealth, Income, Sustainability and Accounting in an Ultra-Simplified Setting, Martin L. Weitzman
4. Wealth and Happiness, Claudia Senik
Part Two: History of Wealth Creation and Destruction
5. A Sustainable Century: Genuine Savings in Developing and Developed Countries, 1900-2000, Matthias Blum, Cristian Ducoing, Eoin McLaughlin
6. Household Wealth Trends in the US, 1983 to 2010, Edward N. Wolff
7. Historical Wealth Accounts for Britain: Progress and Puzzles in Measuring the Sustainability of Economic Growth, Eoin McLaughlin, Nick Hanley, David Greasley, Jan Kunnas, Les Oxley, and Paul Warde
8. Wealth, Top Incomes, and Inequality, Frank Cowell, Brian Nolan, Javier Olivera, and Philippe Van Kerm
9. Wealth Creation and the Entrepreneurial State, Mariana Mazzucato
Part Three: Components of Wealth
10. Recording Environmental Assets in the National Accounts, Carl Obst and Michael Vardon
11. Human Capital, Tangible Wealth, and the Intangible Capital Residual, Kirk Hamilton and Gang Liu
12. Social Capital, Trust, and Well-being in the Evaluation of Wealth, Kirk Hamilton, John F. Helliwell, and Michael Woolcock
13. Infrastructure: Political Economy of Wealth Creation, Michael Klein
14. Nodes of Capital: Cities, Wealth, and the Era of Urbanization, Dimitri Zenghelis
Part Four: Wealth and Sustainability
15. Wealth and Sustainability, Kirk Hamilton and John Hartwick
16. Sustainable Economic Growth and the Role of Natural Capital, Dieter Helm
17. Finance, Wealth, Technological Innovation, and Regulation, Colin Mayer
18. The Economics of Sovereign Wealth Funds, Rolando Ossowski and Havard Halland
19. Sustainable Management of Natural Resource Wealth, Rick van der Ploeg
Part Five: Conclusion
20. Conclusion, Kirk Hamilton and Cameron Hepburn