Contents:
The search for alternative indicators
Indicators, value systems and the formation of judgements ; Typologizing the studies surveyed, with an emphasis on synthetic indicators ; A first indicator of growth --
GDP and growth called into question
The arguments advanced by national accountants ; GDP, growth and well-being --
Human development and social progress
The UNDP development indicators ; The index of social health ; the BIP 40: a barometer of inequalities and poverty in France ; The personal security indes (PSI) ; Local indicators --
The first extensions of GDP
Extending the boundaries of GDP: the controversies ; An example of a convention: domestic work ; Nordhaus and Tobin: the precursor of a new indicator --
Environmental GDPs and the ecological footprint
Green national product and the index of sustainable economic well-being (ISEW) ; The genuine progress indicator (GPI) ; The World Bank's genuine savings indicator ; The ecological footprint ; The dashboard of sustainable development --
The index of economic well-being
Sustainable well-being: definition and the corresponding method ; the measurement of economic security in the IEWB ; The main results --
Evaluating the indicators
The (relatively) technical aspects of the indicator ; Evaluating the indicators as policy-making aids --
Sustainable human development and national accounts in the twenty-first century
Two perspectives on the history of national accounting ; The current controversies as political and moral in nature as the early debates
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