Roefie Hueting

Roelof (Roefie) Hueting (16 December 1929 – 24 June 2023) was a Dutch economist, former Head of the Department for Environmental Statistics of Statistics Netherlands, pianist and leader of the Down Town Jazz Band, and known for the development of the concept of Sustainable National Income (SNI).

[1] In 1949 he founded the Down Town Jazz Band, and earned his living as musician during his studies at the University of Amsterdam which he started in 1951 and received his MA in Economics in 1959.

[3] Hueting developed the theoretical and practical framework of the Sustainable national income (SNI).

He has analyzed the environment from the neoclassical point of view of scarcity and developed the concept of Sustainable National Income (SNI).

(UNEP, IUCN, WWF) There are various possible descriptions of this area of research but a good one is provided as follows: Examples of ecological suicide are given by Jared Diamond in his book Collapse.