This paper reconstructs the National Income and Product Accounts to add asset-price (‘capital’) gains national income derive a measure of total returns. It also treats rent-extraction as charge against GDP, not contribution output. Segregating Finance, Insurance, Real Estate sector from rest private shows that most growth in wealth derives rentier activities – dynamic finance capitalism more th...

Purpose There is limited knowledge of the sustainable halal food supply management in Brunei Darussalam (Brunei), although it reputable economy and advocates United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Therefore, this paper highlights issues faced a small, rentier market proposes chain (SSCM) initiatives for halal-certified companies Brunei. Design/methodology/approach This draws ...

Maximizing expected utility over a lifetime leads one who has constant relative risk aversion and faces random-walk securities returns to be "myopic" and hold the same fraction of portfolio in equities early and late in life--a defiance of folk wisdom and casual introspection. By assuming one needs to assure at retirement a minimum ("subsistence") level of wealth, the present analysis deduces a...