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Review of Economic Studies Vol. 45 No. 2 1978

Substitution Among Exhaustible Resources and Intergenerational Equity

John M. Hartwick

Queen's University

Abstract

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

DOI
10.2307/2297349
Volume
45
Issue
2
Pages
347
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