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The idea of measuring the national welfare level by using the green NNP (net national product) has gained much attention lately. This paper summarizes the research on social accounting in imperfect market economies by putting the results into a unified framework. The main contribution of the paper is to relate the form of the national welfare measure to the functioning of the economic system and, therefore, to explicitly address the informational requirements implicit in social accounting.
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Aronsson, T., Löfgren, KG. Green Accounting in Imperfect Market Economies. Environ Resource Econ 11, 273–287 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008253831365
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