The Direct and Indirect Contributions of Tourism to Regional GDP: Hawaii
After two decades of development and refinement, the Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) has been touted as the most comprehensive way to measure the economic contribution of tourism to a destination’s gross domestic product. However, recent literature has pointed out that the TSA is deficient in that it does not yield the indirect contribution of tourism […]
Read MoreIslands of Sustainability in Time and Space
We review the economics perspective on sustainable resource use and sustainable development. Under standard conditions, dynamic efficiency leads to sustainability of renewable resources but not the other way around. For the economic‐ecological system as a whole, dynamic efficiency and intergenerational fairness similarly lead to sustainability, but ad hoc rules of sustainability may well lead to […]
Read MoreRecession or Not, US Growth Will Continue to Disappoint
The US economy is once again flirting with recession. While most data still suggest continued growth, recent events have clearly turned in a more negative direction. Coming weeks will show whether the damage is bad enough to tip the economy into a full-fledged downturn. In the mean time, this period of slower growth is taking […]
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