A vast literature seeks to measure and explain the apparent decline in the labor share in
national income that has occurred in recent times in the United States and elsewhere. The …

▪ Abstract From modest beginnings in the 1960s, environmental economics has grown to be
a major subdiscipline of economics. It combines traditional work in the field of welfare …

Colin Matthews was vexed. To have valuers crawling all over his airport was the last thing
he wanted. But after three years, it could no longer be stopped. It was the summer of 2012 …

In the postwar era, developed economies have experienced two substantial trends in the net
capital share of aggregate income: a rise during the last several decades, which is well …

Abstract Assessment of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has largely focused
on formulating appropriate targets and indicators for each goal. Much less attention has …

The sense that recent technological advances have yielded considerable benefits for
everyday life, as well as disappointment over measured productivity and output growth in …

Human well-being relies critically on ecosystem services provided by nature. Examples
include water and air quality regulation, nutrient cycling and decomposition, plant pollination …

In spite of recurrent criticism and an impressive production of alternative indicators by
scholars and NGOs, GDP remains the central indicator of countries' success. This book …

Comparing US gross domestic product to the sum of measured payments to labor and
imputed rental payments to capital results in a large and volatile residual or “factorless” …

This paper uses a new cross-country cross-industry dataset on investment in tangible and
intangible assets for 18 European countries and the US. We set out a framework for …