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

Intro -- Foreword -- Michael Joffe "Evaluating the Success of an Economy" -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- 1 A Successful Economy is One that Meets Basic Human Needs -- 1.1 Evaluating Economic Success -- 1.2 Basic Human Needs -- 1.3 The Economic Conditions for Human Wellbeing: Outputs and Outcomes -- 1.4 The Proposal -- 1.5 The Types of Indicator and Their Complementary Roles -- References -- 2 How to Monitor an Economy's Contribution to Meeting Basic Needs -- 2.1 Economic Outcome Measures as Intermediate Outcomes -- 2.2 A Suggested List of Economic Outcome Indicators -- 2.3 Sectoral Classification of the Indicators -- 2.4 Cross-Cutting Issues -- 2.5 Quantitative Presentation -- 2.6 Implications of a Focus on the Fulfilment of Basic Needs -- 2.7 The International Perspective -- 2.8 Principles for Inclusion as an Economic Outcome Indicator -- 2.9 Development Work -- References -- 3 An Outline of Existing Monitoring Systems -- 3.1 GDP and Its Limitations -- 3.2 "Beyond GDP" -- 3.2.1 Adjusted Versions of GDP -- 3.2.2 Composite Indicators -- 3.2.3 "Beyond GDP" Approaches that Focus on Economic Outcomes -- 3.2.4 Recent Developments -- 3.3 Assets -- 3.4 Impact: Subjective Wellbeing and Health -- 3.4.1 Subjective Wellbeing -- 3.4.2 Health -- 3.4.3 Monitor Determinants Not Impacts -- 3.5 Recent Contributions on the Overall Monitoring System -- References -- 4 Advantages of the Proposed New Monitoring System -- 4.1 Strengths of a Monitoring System with a Basic Needs Focus, Compared with Existing Proposals -- 4.2 Relationship of Basic Needs to Other Criteria -- 4.3 Multiple Policy Options -- 4.4 Policy Implications -- 4.5 Practical Implications -- 4.6 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Technical Appendix: Quantifying the Impact of Economic Outcomes -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Calculation of Real GDP.

5.3 Economic Outcome Indicators: Selection, Quantification, Weighting and Aggregation -- 5.4 Evidence -- 5.5 Data Collection and Data Quality -- 5.6 Additional Complications -- References -- Index.

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