The concept was introduced by Joseph Nye, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, who wrote the Foreword for this book.
Why are some nations wealthy and others poor? How did the wealthy nations become rich? What are the components of wealth? How should nations manage their wealth for the future? These are among the most important questions in economics.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
This radical, reforming book was named one of the "Books of the Year".by both the FT and The Economist.
This is the only set of national wealth estimates now available for the United States. Originally published in 1962.
The National Wealth of the United States in the Postwar Period
Special features of this work include presentation of data sector by sector, which casts light on the changing roles of financial institutions, and Goldsmith's expression of data in the form of ratios rather than in absolute dollar values, ...
This paper offers a discussion about the macroeconomics of exhaustible resources. In a resource-based economy, long-term sustainability is an obvious issue. This paper outlines some ideas on how to treat...
When discussing debt reduction strategies, little attention has been given to the role of governments’ nonfinancial assets. This is in part because data are scarce.
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