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Measuring and Promoting Wellbeing : How Important Is Economic Growth?.
Australia continues to be at the forefront of international work on measuring and promoting wellbeing, Ian Castles being a significant contributor over the last forty years as an official and academic. This book combines a selection of Castles' important work with contemporary research from a r...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Canberra :
ANU Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Measuring and Promoting Wellbeing; Preface; Contributors; 1. Economic Growth, Wellbeing and Protecting the Future: An Overview of the Castles Symposium; Part One: The Role of Economics in Defining and Promoting Wellbeing; 2. Economic Growth and Wellbeing: Ian Castles' Contribution; 3. Ian Castles: Scholar as Truth Teller; 4. Economics and Anti-Economics; 5. Economic Growth: Is it Worth Having?; Part Two: Measuring Real Income and Wellbeing; 6. Measuring Progress: The International Context; 7. The Four Approaches to Measuring Wellbeing; 8. The Need for Wellbeing Measurement in Context. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 9. The Wellbeing of the Australian People: Comments on the Treasury's Framework10. Subjective Wellbeing and the Mismeasure of Progress; 11. Measuring Wealth and Welfare: Why HDI and GPI Fail; 12. Measuring Economic Progress: From Political Arithmetick to Social Accounts; 13. The Mismeasure of Nations: A Review Essay on the Human Development Report 1998; 14. Measuring Economic Progress; 15. Reporting on Human Development: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics; 16. International Comparisons of GDP: Issues of Theory and Practice; Part Three: Measuring Inequality. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 17. What Can We Learn from International Evidence on Trends in Income Distribution?18. Changes in Inequality in Australia and the Redistributional Impacts of Taxes and Government Benefits; 19. What Difference Does Government Make? Measuring Redistribution in a Comparative Perspective; 20. Money Income Distribution and Redistribution in Australia, Sweden and the United States 1984; 21. Living Standards in Sydney and Japanese Cities: A Comparison; Part Four: Climate Change and Limits to Growth; 22. Climate Change and Related Issues: Ian Castles' Contributions in Perspective. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 23. Addressing Wellbeing in the Long-Term: a Review of Intergenerational Equity and Discount Rates in Climate Change Analysis24. Limits to Growth ... Again; 25. Scientists, Statisticians and the Prophets of Doom; 26. Global Warming and the 'Scientific Consensus' 1939-2001; 27. Ian Castles and the IPCC -- Selected Letters; 28. The Stern Review: A Dual Critique. | |
| 520 | |a Australia continues to be at the forefront of international work on measuring and promoting wellbeing, Ian Castles being a significant contributor over the last forty years as an official and academic. This book combines a selection of Castles' important work with contemporary research from a range of contributors. The material is in four parts: 1. The role of economics in defining and promoting wellbeing 2. Measuring real income and wellbeing 3. Measuring inequality 4. Climate change and the limits to growth. The issues canvassed are both long-standing and current. Does economic growth contribute to wellbeing? How different is income to wellbeing? How do we measure societal wellbeing and take its distribution into account? The book will be of value to all those looking to informed debate on global challenges such as reducing poverty, sustaining the environment and advancing the quality of life, including politicians, commentators, officials and academics. | ||
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