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Going beyond GDP with a parsimonious indicator : inequality-adjusted healthy lifetime income
Bloom, David E.; Fan, Victoria Y.; Kufenko, Vadim; … - 2020
Per capita GDP has limited use as a well-being indicator because it does not capture many dimensions that imply a "good life," such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can be calculated with manageable data requirements....
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Going beyond GDP with a parsimonious indicator : inequality-adjusted healthy lifetime income
Bloom, David E.; Fan, Victoria Y.; Kufenko, Vadim; … - 2020
Per capita GDP has limited use as a well-being indicator because it does not capture many dimensions that imply a "good life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can be calculated with manageable data requirements....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169722
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Inequality beyond GDP : a long view
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - 2021
multidimensional well-being from a capabilities perspective during the last one-and-a-half centuries. Relative inequality (population … terms but widening in absolute terms. Countries in the middle and lower deciles of the world distribution achieved the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012820189
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Recoupling economic and social prosperity
Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020
to provide a "sage" approach to assessing well-being, since it aims to denote sagacity in the pursuit and satisfaction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171696
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Neo-humanism and COVID-19: opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021
. Neo-humanism proposes a world in which the well-being of people comes before the well-being of markets, in which promoting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803715
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Neo-humanism and COVID-19 : opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021 - Version: 20 April 2021
pandemic. Neo-humanism proposes a world in which the well-being of people comes before the wellbeing of markets, in which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012505150
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Measuring progress
O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
Societal progress is characterized primarily as an improvement in the distribution of wellbeing; however, a small set of additional variables are also necessary. Social indicators based on objective measures are inherently limited by the subjective assessments necessary of "experts" to select...
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Subjective questions to measure welfare and well-being
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002
This paper provides arguments in favor of using subjective questions as a proxy to measure welfare and well-being. This approach makes it possible to avoid having to define welfare and well-being means and having to identify the relevant indicators. Instead, individuals themselves define their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326409
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Rehabilitating L.W. Sumner's "Happiness Theory of Welfare" : part 1: Sumner's welfare theoretic system
Sinstead-Reid, Andrew - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624032
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Capabilities for the miserable : happiness for the satisfied
Edwards, José M.; Pellé, Sophie - 2011
economics of happiness and the capability approach. They focused on different concepts of well-being: the "joy" of satisfied … consumers for Scitovsky, and the "capabilities" of deprived individuals for Sen. In imposing new theoretical frameworks …, applications, as well as new concepts of well-being, which are measureable, the capability approach and the economics of happiness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011708267