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Substitution Among Exhaustible Resources and Intergenerational Equity

Review of Economic Studies 1978 45(2), 347
In Hartwick [3], it was shown that implicit in Solow's [10] model of intergenerational equity and exhaustible resources was the savings-investment rule: society should invest in re-producible capital precisely the current returns from the use of flows ofexhaustible resources in order to maintain per capita consumption constant. Population was assumed to remain