... responses. Returning to the place of social indicators, Offer concluded that the “‘tough-minded’ preference of objective measures of well-being or even ‘tougher’ belief in simple consumerism are fraught with pitfalls and cannot deliver on their own, a single all-purpose measure of quality of life.” Being...

...Markus Lang This is a comment on Katharina Lima de Miranda and Dennis Snower’s multidimensional approach for the assessment of human well-being. It applauds the authors for looking “beyond GDP” but urges them to go one step further and replace GDP as a measure of material well-being by growth...

.... [email protected] © 2020 by The Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved. 2020 prosociality well-being economic inequality beyond gdp sustainability We manage what we measure, and for too long, policymakers have been measuring the wrong things when it comes...

...Sean Cleary © 2020 by The Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved. 2020 material gain social progress solidarity the human development index well-being 1. [email protected] The authors’ reasoning for their suggested composition...

...Katharina Lima de Miranda; Dennis J. Snower This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human well-being, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being...