In:
Économie appliquée, PERSEE Program, Vol. 48, No. 2 ( 1995), p. 25-57
Abstract:
Our aims in this paper are to identify the issues that seems to be most salient in formal economic analysis of sustainability, and to review economic theory that bears on these issues. In the latter effort we focus mostly on literature within the methodological mainstream of neoclassical economics, though the studies do not always maintain all the common assumptions of neoclassical theory. We first draw together arguments from economics, ecology and philosophy to briefly describe what seem to be the most important issues in addressing sustainability. Armed with this characterization, we then review several categories of studies related to economic advance, natural resource use, and environmental preservation over time. We include both representative-agent models an overlapping -generationed models in the review. The concluding section of the paper summarizes our discussion and offers an overall assessment of the literature.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0013-0494
DOI:
10.3406/ecoap.1995.1555
Language:
French
Publisher:
PERSEE Program
Publication Date:
1995
detail.hit.zdb_id:
216115-1
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