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Macroeconomics and the Environment: Essays on Green Accounting
Author(s): Salah El Serafy (Author)
- Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
- Publication Date: 31 Jan. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 400 pages
- ISBN-10: 1781007357
- ISBN-13: 9781781007358
Book Description
Through a combination of new material reflecting recent developments in the field and previously published essays that provide a history of green accounting, the author emphasizes the importance of considering natural resources as part of a nation’s economic capital. Setting forth what has become known as the ‘El Serafy Method’, this fascinating and complex volume presents both the justification and the methodology for giving the environment a place in the global economic conversation.
Students, professors, researchers and policymakers in the field of environmental and ecological economics will no doubt find much to appreciate in this thoughtful and comprehensive analysis of the intersection between economics and the environment.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘This book is a fabulous summary of Salah El Serafy’s seminal contributions to ”greening” national income accounts. If only we had employed the famous “El Serafy method” of investing depletion of non-renewable resources into renewable alternatives, the world would be in a much stronger and more sustainable place today. Hopefully it is not too late to take up this and El Serafy’s many other recommendations for improving national income accounting.’ –Robert Costanza, Portland State University
