Measuring Tomorrow (eBook)

Accounting for Well-Being, Resilience, and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century

Éloi Laurent (Autor)

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2017
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8863-4 (ISBN)

Infos

How moving beyond GDP will improve well-being and sustainabilityNever before in human history have we produced so much data, and this empirical revolution has shaped economic research and policy profoundly. But are we measuring, and thus managing, the right things-those that will help us solve the real social, economic, political, and environmental challenges of the twenty-first century? In Measuring Tomorrow, Eloi Laurent argues that we need to move away from narrowly useful metrics such as gross domestic product and instead use broader ones that aim at well-being, resilience, and sustainability. By doing so, countries will be able to shift their focus away from infinite and unrealistic growth and toward social justice and quality of life for their citizens.The time has come for these broader metrics to become more than just descriptive, Laurent argues; applied carefully by private and public decision makers, they can foster genuine progress. He begins by taking stock of the booming field of well-being and sustainability indicators, and explains the insights that the best of these can offer. He then shows how these indicators can be used to develop new policies, from the local to the global.An essential resource for scholars, students, and policymakers, Measuring Tomorrow covers all aspects of well-being-including health, education, and the environment-and incorporates a broad range of data and fascinating case studies from around the world: not just the United States and Europe but also China, Africa, the Middle East, and India.

Autor

Éloi Laurent is senior economist at the Sciences Po Centre for Economic Research (OFCE) in Paris. He also teaches at Stanford University and has been a visiting professor at Harvard University. He is the author or editor of fifteen books.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.12.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 20 line illus. 15 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Accounting • Air Pollution • Amartya Sen • americans • biodiversity • Book • Calculation • Capability Approach • climate change • commodification • Consideration • Consumption (Economics) • Cost–benefit analysis • Currency • developed country • distrust • Easterlin Paradox • Ecological Crisis • Ecological economics • ecological footprint • Ecology • Economic Development • Economic Growth • Economic indicator • Economic Inequality • Economic Policy • Economics • economist • economy • ecosystem • Ecosystem services • Education • Elinor Ostrom • Employment • Environmental Degradation • Environmental issue • environmental protection • European Integration • Externality • Freedom House • Genuine Progress Indicator • global warming • Governance • Great Recession • Greenhouse Gas • Gross Domestic Product • gross national product • Health • Household • human behavior • Human Capital • Human Development Index • Human Development Report • Incentive • income • Infrastructure • Institution • Interest Rate • John Maynard Keynes • Kenneth Arrow • Life Expectancy • Life Satisfaction • Market Price • Measurement • Measures of national income and output • Member State • monetization • National Accounts • Natural capital • natural resource • percentage • Percentage point • pollution • Populism • Public Policy • quality of life • Recession • Robert Solow • Scarcity • Social capital • Social discount rate • Social protection • Social reality • social relation • Social Transformation • Society • standard of living • Stanford University • Supply (economics) • sustainability • sustainable development • Sustainable Development Goals • Tax • Trade-off • Unemployment • Value (economics) • Wealth • welfare • well-being • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8863-8 / 1400888638
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8863-4 / 9781400888634