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Measuring and promoting wellbeing : how important is economic growth? : essays in honour of Ian Castles AO and a selection of Castle's papers /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Acton, A.C.T. :
ANU E Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Australia and New Zealand School of Government monograph.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Economic growth, wellbeing, and protecting the future: an overview of the Castles Symposium / Andrew Podger, Dennis Trewin and William Gort
- Part one. The role of economics in defining and promoting wellbeing
- Economic growth and wellbeing: Ian Castles' contribution / Michael Keating
- Ian Castles: scholar as truth teller / William Coleman
- Economics and anti-economics / Ian Castles
- Economic growth: is it worth having? / Ian Castles and Treasury
- Part two. Measuring real income and wellbeing
- Measuring progress: the international context / Brian Pink, Sue Taylor and Hannah Wetzler
- The four approaches to measuring wellbeing / John Hawkins
- The need for wellbeing measurement in context / David Gruen and Duncan Spender
- The wellbeing of the Australian people: comments on the Treasury's framework / Jonathan Pincus
- Subject wellbeing and the mismeasure of progress / Richard Eckersley
- Measuring wealth and welfare: why HDI and GPI fail ; Measuring economic progress: from political arithmetick to social accounts ; The mismeasure of nations: a review essay on the Human Development Report 1998 ; Measuring economic progress ; Reporting on human development: lies, damned lies, and statistics / Ian Castles
- International comparisons of GDP: issues of theory and practice / Ian Castles and David Henderson
- Part three. Measuring inequality
- What can we learn from international evidence on trends in income distribution? / Henry Ergas
- Changes in inequality in Australia and the redistributional impacts of taxes and government benefits / J Rob Bray
- What difference does government make? Measuring redistribution in a comparative perspective / Peter Whiteford
- Money income distribution and redistribution in Australia, Sweden and the United States 1984 ; Living standards in Sydney and Japanese cities: a comparison / Ian Castles
- Part four. Climate change and limits to growth
- Climate change and related issues: Ian Castles' contributions in perspective / David Henderson
- Addressing wellbeing in the long-term: a review of intergenerational equity and discount rates in climate change analysis / Mark Harrison
- Limits to growth ... again / Jeff Bennett
- Scientists, statisticians and the prophets of doom ; Global warming and the 'scientific consensus' 1939-2001 / Ian Castles
- Ian Castles and the IPCC: selected letters
- The Stern review: a dual critique / Alan Peacock [and others].