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02763nam a2200253Ia 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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| control field |
DE-boiza |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20200103101436.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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| fixed length control field |
191008 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
978-0-19-976719-9 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Transcribing agency |
IZA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Fleurbaey, Marc |
| 9 (RLIN) |
3454 |
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| Personal name |
Blanchet, Didier |
| 9 (RLIN) |
3453 |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Beyond GDB: Measuring Welfare and Assessing Sustainability |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2013 |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Oxford University Press, |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York, |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
306 pages |
| 340 ## - PHYSICAL MEDIUM |
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| Location within medium |
D6 97 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
In spite of recurrent criticism and an impressive production of alternative indicators by scholars and NGOs, GDP remains the central indicator of countries’ success. This book revisits the foundations of indicators of social welfare, and critically examines the four main alternatives to GDP that have been proposed: composite indicators, subjective well-being indexes, capabilities (the underlying philosophy of the Human Development Index), and equivalent incomes. Its provocative thesis is that the problem with GDP is not that it uses a monetary metric but that it focuses on a narrow set of aspects of individual lives. It is actually possible to build an alternative, more comprehensive, monetary indicator that takes income as its first benchmark and adds or subtracts corrections that represent the benefit or cost of non-market aspects of individual lives. Such a measure can respect the values and preferences of the people and give as much weight as they do to the non-market dimensions. A further provocative idea is that, in contrast, most of the currently available alternative indicators, including subjective well-being indexes, are not as respectful of people’s values because, like GDP, they are too narrow and give specific weights to the various dimensions of life in a more uniform way, without taking account of the diversity of views on life in the population. The popular attraction that such alternative indicators derive from being non-monetary is therefore based on equivocation. Moreover, it is argued in this book that “greening” GDP and relative indicators is not the proper way to incorporate sustainability concerns. Sustainability involves predicting possible future paths, therefore different indicators than those assessing the current situation. While various indicators have been popular (adjusted net savings, ecological footprint), none of them involves the necessary forecasting effort that a proper evaluation of possible futures requires. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
gross domestic product |
| 9 (RLIN) |
3455 |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
social welfare |
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2880 |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
welfare economics |
| 9 (RLIN) |
3456 |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
sustainability |
| 9 (RLIN) |
6069 |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Link text |
Publisher's website |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199767199.001.0001/acprof-9780199767199">https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199767199.001.0001/acprof-9780199767199</a> |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Monography |
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