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Estimates of Britain’s comprehensive wealth are reported for the period 1760–2000. They include measures of produced, natural, and human capital, and illustrate the changing composition of Britain’s assets over this time period. We show how genuine savings, GS (a year-on-year measure of the change in total capital and a claimed indicator of sustainable development) has evolved over time. Changes in total wealth are compared to alternative, investment-based measures of GS, including variants augmented with the value of exogenous technology. Additionally, the possible effects of population change on wealth, and the implications of including carbon-dioxide emissions in natural capital are considered.
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How has Britain's wealth in terms of produced, natural, human capital changed between 1760 & present?
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This page is a summary of: Historical wealth accounts for Britain: progress and puzzles in measuring the sustainability of economic growth, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, March 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/gru002.
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