Sustainability constraints versus "optimality" versus intertemporal concern, and axioms versus data

Land Economics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 448-466

  Pezzey, John C V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC THEORY; INTERTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL WELFARE; SUSTAINABILITY CONCEPT; UTILITY VALUE;

EID: 0031393837     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3147239     Document Type: Article

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