TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gadrey, Jean
AU  - Jany-Catrice, F.
TI  - The new indicators of well-being and development
SN  - 0230005004
U1  - 306.361 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Economic indicators
KW  - Quality of life
KW  - Measurement
KW  - Sustainable development
KW  - Environmental economics
N1  - 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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