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The Wealth of Nature

Major new research on policies to increase national wealth and reduce risk by measuring and managing natural capital.

By Cameron Hepburn, Kirk Hamilton et al GEC · 27th November, 2017
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New research paper from international team of economists from University of Oxford, commissioned by the Green Economy Coalition, exploring the role of natural capital in mainstream economic theories, and questioning whether existing models of substitutability of capitals accurately reflect reality.

Read our press release on the launch of the paper.

Authors: François Cohen, Kirk Hamilton, Cameron Hepburn, Frank Sperling, Alexander Teytelboym

Based at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford

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