The wellbeing of nations : meaning, motive and measurement /

"What is national wellbeing and what is progress? Why measure these definitions? Why are measures beyond economic performance needed and how will they be used? How do we measure national wellbeing & turn the definitions into observable quantities? Where are we now and where to next? These q...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Allin, Paul
Otros Autores: Hand, D. J. (David John), 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : Wiley, 2014.
Temas:
Happiness.
Well-being.
Cost and standard of living.
National income > Accounting.
Happiness
Bonheur.
Bien-être.
Coût et niveau de la vie.
Comptabilité nationale.
comfort (sensation)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Econometrics.
Cost and standard of living
National income > Accounting
Well-being
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Wellbeing of Nations
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Preface
  • Reference
  • 1 What is national wellbeing and why measure it?
  • 1.1 Motivation: Why measure wellbeing?
  • 1.2 What is individual wellbeing?
  • 1.3 Aspects of individual wellbeing
  • 1.4 How to measure individual wellbeing?
  • 1.4.1 Basics of measurement
  • 1.4.2 What is measured matters
  • 1.5 Properties of measurements
  • 1.5.1 Validity
  • 1.5.2 Reliability
  • 1.6 Objective or subjective?
  • 1.7 Combining multiple aspects
  • 1.8 What is national wellbeing?
  • 1.9 And how to measure national wellbeing?
  • 1.10 Structure of the book
  • References
  • 2 A short history of national wellbeing and its measurement
  • 2.1 The good society and philosophies of the role of government, from ancient times
  • 2.2 Utilitarianism
  • 2.3 The American constitution
  • 2.4 Official statistics
  • statistics about the state and about the state of society
  • 2.5 National accounts and GDP
  • 2.6 More to life than GDP
  • 2.7 Social indicator movement and measuring quality of life
  • 2.8 Health and wellbeing
  • 2.9 Rise of measurement of psychological wellbeing (life satisfaction, happiness, worthwhile lives)
  • 2.10 The Easterlin paradox
  • 2.11 Taking note of the change in the quality of the goods and services we use
  • 2.12 Capability approach to quality of life (Sen) and the human development index
  • 2.13 Social capital and public value
  • 2.14 Limits to growth and sustainable development indicators
  • 2.14.1 Sustainable development indicators
  • 2.14.2 Green growth indicators
  • 2.14.3 Natural resource accounting
  • 2.15 Commentary
  • References
  • 3 Recent developments: Towards economic, social and environmental accounts
  • 3.1 Mismeasuring our lives: The report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress.
  • 3.2 Replacing the Millennium Development Goals
  • 3.3 A new global movement?
  • 3.4 Commentary
  • References
  • 4 Measuring individual wellbeing
  • 4.1 On quantification
  • 4.2 Single measures of wellbeing
  • 4.3 Combining aspects of wellbeing
  • 4.3.1 Causes, effects, and correlates
  • 4.3.2 Subjective components of wellbeing
  • 4.3.3 Weighted sums
  • 4.4 Components of individual wellbeing
  • 4.5 The frailty of memory
  • 4.6 The devils in the details
  • 4.7 Conclusion
  • References
  • 5 Preparing to measure national wellbeing
  • 5.1 Towards a user requirement for measures of national wellbeing and progress
  • 5.2 Towards a framework to measure the progress of societies
  • 5.3 Constructing measures of progress and national wellbeing: Identifying and meeting user requirements
  • 5.4 Commentary
  • References
  • 6 How to measure national wellbeing?
  • 6.1 Drawing on the national economic accounts
  • 6.2 Extending the national accounts
  • 6.2.1 Consider income and consumption jointly with wealth
  • 6.2.2 Give more prominence to the distribution of income, consumption and wealth
  • 6.2.3 Broaden income measures to nonmarket activities
  • 6.3 Indicator sets describing social and environmental conditions relating to wellbeing
  • 6.3.1 Improve measures of people's health, education, personal activities and environmental conditions
  • 6.3.2 Quality-of-life indicators in all the dimensions covered should assess inequalities in a comprehensive way
  • 6.3.3 Surveys should be designed to assess the links between various quality-of-life domains for each person, and this information should be used when designing policies in various fields
  • 6.3.4 Statistical offices should provide the information needed to aggregate across quality-of-life dimensions, allowing the construction of different indexes.
  • 6.3.5 Sustainability assessment requires a well-identified dashboard of indicators
  • 6.3.6 The environmental aspects of sustainability deserve a separate follow-up based on a well-chosen set of physical indicators
  • 6.4 Survey-based data on subjective wellbeing
  • 6.5 Developments in measuring national wellbeing and progress around the world
  • 6.6 Important issues in the measurement of national wellbeing
  • References
  • 7 Wellbeing policy and measurement in the UK
  • References
  • 8 Conclusions
  • 8.1 Progress
  • 8.2 Measuring wellbeing
  • 8.3 New technologies, new data?
  • 8.4 Beyond the economy
  • 8.5 The future
  • References
  • Appendix: Sources of methods and measures of wellbeing and progress
  • Cross-national measures
  • Cross-national developments and methodologies
  • National, regional and local measures of wellbeing and progress
  • Further reading
  • Index
  • EULA.

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