Relative income, aspiration, environmental quality, individual and political myopia. Why may the rat-race for material growth be welfare-reducing?

Mathematical Social Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 3-23

  Ng, Yew Kwang ^a   Wang, Jianguo ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

aspiration; economic growth; environmental quality; myopia; Relative income; welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 38248999644     PISSN: 01654896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-4896(93)90008-7     Document Type: Article

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