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by David J. Hand, Paul Allin
The Wellbeing of Nations: Meaning, Motive and Measurement
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?
1.5 Properties of measurements
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
2.15 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
4.4 Components of individual wellbeing
4.5 The frailty of memory
4.6 The devil's 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
6.3 Indicator sets describing social and environmental conditions relating to wellbeing
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
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