Concern about sustainability helped to launch a new agenda for development and
environmental economics and challenged many of the fundamental goals and assumptions
of the conventional, neoclassical economics of growth and development. We review 25
years' of refereed journal articles on the economics of sustainability, with emphasis on
analyses that involve concern for intergenerational equity in the long-term decision-making
of a society; recognition of the role of finite environmental resources in long-term decision …

Concern about sustainability helped to launch a new agenda for development and
environmental economics and challenged many of the fundamental goals and assumptions
of the conventional, neoclassical economics of growth and development. We review 25
years' of refereed journal articles on the economics of sustainability, with emphasis on
analyses that involve concern for intergenerational equity in the long-term decisionmaking of
a society; recognition of the role of finite environmental resources in long-term …