Tracing Sustainability in the Long Run: Genuine Savings Estimates 1850 - 2018

The authors acknowledge the excellent research support by Johanna Fink in the data base compilation. Previous versions of this paper have been presented at The "Swedish Economic History Meeting" in Gothenburg October 2021, the "The Wealth of Nations in the Post-Covid Era", April 2022, The World Economic History Congress in Paris, July 2022, the Queen's University Centre of Economic History Seminar, September 2022, and the Heriot-Watt Economics seminar, September 2022. Thanks to Eli Fenichel, Nicholas Muller, and Stephanie Onder for their comments on earlier iterations of this draft. These acknowledgements are extensive to all the participants at the "NBER Conference CRIW Measuring and Accounting for Environmental Public Goods: A National Accounts Perspective". This work is funded by the Riksbanken Jubileunsfond through the project 'Genuine Savings as a measure of sustainable development. Towards a GDP replacement'. Ref: P19-0048:1. The data utilized in this article are available at the website https://www.genuinesavings.org/data. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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