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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449745503321

Titolo

Where is the wealth of nations? [[electronic resource] ] : measuring capital for the 21st century

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : The World Bank, 2005

ISBN

1-280-28224-X

9786610282241

0-8213-6355-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HamiltonKirk <1951->

Disciplina

338.9/27/015195

Soggetti

Sustainable development - Econometric models

Wealth - Econometric models

Economic indicators

Environmental indicators

Saving and investment - Econometric models

Human capital - Econometric models

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Extends and expands the work done in Expanding the measure of wealth (World Bank, 1997) to provide a comprehensive snapshot of wealth for 120 countries at the turn of the millennium.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Looking for the Wealth of Nations-A Logical Map; Executive Summary; Part 1-Wealth Accounting; Chapter 1. Introduction: The Millennium Capital Assessment; Chapter 2. The Wealth Stock Estimates; Part 2-Changes in Wealth; Chapter 3. Recent Genuine Saving Estimates; Chapter 4. The Importance of Investing Resource Rents: A Hartwick Rule Counterfactual; Chapter 5. The Importance of Population Dynamics: Changes in Wealth per Capita; Chapter 6. Testing Genuine Saving; Part 3-Wealth, Production, and Development

Chapter 7. Explaining the Intangible Capital Residual: The Role of Human Capital and Institutions Chapter 8. Wealth and Production; Part 4-International Experience; Chapter 9. Developing and Using Environmental Accounts; Appendixes: Sources and Methods; Appendix



1. Building the Wealth Estimates; Appendix 2. Wealth Estimates by Country, 2000; Appendix 3. Genuine Saving Estimates by Country, 2000; Appendix 4. Change in Wealth per Capita, 2000; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The book presents estimates of total wealth for nearly 120 countries, using economic theory to decompose the wealth of a nation into its component pieces: produced capital, natural resources and human resources. The wealth estimates provide a unique opportunity to look at economic management from a broader and comprehensive perspective. The book's basic tenet is that economic development can be conceived as a process of portfolio management, so that sustainability becomes an integral part of economic policy making. The rigorous analysis, presented in accessible format, tackles issues such as g

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Record Nr.

UNISA996534567603316

Titolo

Geography and religious knowledge in the medieval world. / / edited by Christoph Mauntel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : De Gruyter, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-11-068615-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 312 p.)

Collana

Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte ; ; 14

Disciplina

200.9

Soggetti

Geography

Religion and geography

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Geography and Religious Knowledge -- Part I: Representing the World in Arab-Islamic and Latin- Christian Geography -- It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. No, it’s the World! -- The T-O Diagram and its Religious Connotations -- Part II: Compiling



Geographical Knowledge According to Religious Ideas -- Ordering and Reading the World -- The Divine in Yāqūt’s ‘Lexicon of Peopled Places’ -- Al-Idrīsī, la géographie et les religions -- Part III: Presenting Religious Knowledge in New Forms -- The Globe as Mappa Mundi? Reflections on Terrestrial Globes from around 1500 -- The Culmination of Islamic Sacred Geography -- Religious Knowledge within Changing Cartographical Worldviews -- Part IV: Depicting, Transforming and Experiencing the Holy Land in Maps -- When Religious Geography meets the Geography of Humanists -- The Holy Land Geography as Emotional Experience -- Getting There by Manipulating the Medium -- Note on Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the medieval world, geographical knowledge was influenced by religious ideas and beliefs. Whereas this point is well analysed for the Latin-Christian world, the religious character of the Arabic-Islamic geographic tradition has not yet been scrutinised in detail. This volume addresses this desideratum and combines case studies from both traditions of geographic thinking. The contributions comprise in-depth analyses of individual geographical works as for example those of al-Idrisi or Lambert of Saint-Omer, different forms of presenting geographical knowledge such as TO-diagrams or globes as well as performative aspects of studying and meditating geographical knowledge. Focussing on texts as well as on maps, the contributions open up a comparative perspective on how religious knowledge influenced the way the world and its geography were perceived and described int the medieval world.