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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.