The Four Approaches to Measuring Wellbeing

John Hawkins

The Four Approaches to Measuring Wellbeing

John Hawkins

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Abstract

There are essentially four approaches to constructing a better measure than GDP of whether the nation is making true progress in improving wellbeing; adjusting GDP to make it more suitable, replacing it with a ‘dashboard’ of alternative indicators, weighting these alternative indicators to form a composite indicator, and using peoples’ own reported assessments of their well-being

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Measuring and Promoting Wellbeing: How Important is Economic Growth? Essays in honour of Ian Castles AO and a selection of Castles' papers
Editors	Andrew Podger and Dennis Trewin
Place of Publication	Canberra
Publisher	ANU Press
Pages	191-208
Volume	1
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	9781925021325
Publication status	Published - 2014

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