Evaluating Economic Success : Happiness, Health, and Basic Human Needs /

"Economics aims to be the study of making people's lives better, but the focus has for too long been too narrow. This book makes a compelling case for measures of economic progress that go beyond GDP growth to put human wellbeing firmly in the spotlight, setting out a new system for assess...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Joffe, Michael (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Edition:	1st ed. 2024.
Series:	Wellbeing in Politics and Policy,
Subjects:	Political planning. Medical economics. Public health. Public Policy. Health Economics. Public Health. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. A successful economy is one that meets basic human needs
2. How to monitor an economy's contribution to meeting basic needs
3. An outline of the existing monitoring system
4. The proposed new monitoring system in use
5. Technical appendix: quantifying the impact of economic outcomes.