Journal
RESOURCE AND ENERGY ECONOMICS
Volume 51, Issue -, Pages 18-27Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2017.10.002
Keywords
Accounting; Exhaustible resource; Hotelling; Investment; Depreciation; Income; Capital gains
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- FQRSC
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Because of its simplicity, the simple Hotelling model of exhaustible-resource extraction is a useful vehicle to address two themes in economic accounting: (1) Foundational equalities in the calculation of depreciation and in double-entry bookkeeping, or circular flow, apply in both accounting and economics. (2) Incentives, decisions and outcomes are crucial in economics. It is argued that financial accounting satisfies the demands of the first theme but not the second and that green accounting falls short on both. Both can be satisfied if capital gains are included in net income and product. Comparisons are made to studies in general economics. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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