000			00390nam a2200145Ia 4500
999			_c146388 _d146388
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040			_cCUS
082			_a306.361 _bGAD/N
100			_aGadrey, Jean
245		4	_aThe new indicators of well-being and development/ _cJean Gadrey and Florence Jany-Catrice
260			_aNew York: _bPalgrave Macmillan, _c2006.
300			_a135 p.
505			_aThe 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 _t
650			_aEconomic indicators
650			_aQuality of life _xMeasurement
650			_aSustainable development
650			_aEnvironmental economics
700			_aJany-Catrice, F.
942			_cWB16