Measuring and Promoting Wellbeing : How Important Is Economic Growth?
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (796 pages)
- Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) Series .
- Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) Series .
Measuring and Promoting Wellbeing -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1. Economic Growth, Wellbeing and Protecting the Future: An Overview of the Castles Symposium -- Part One: The Role of Economics in Defining and Promoting Wellbeing -- 2. Economic Growth and Wellbeing: Ian Castles' Contribution -- 3. Ian Castles: Scholar as Truth Teller -- 4. Economics and Anti-Economics -- 5. Economic Growth: Is it Worth Having? -- Part Two: Measuring Real Income and Wellbeing -- 6. Measuring Progress: The International Context -- 7. The Four Approaches to Measuring Wellbeing -- 8. The Need for Wellbeing Measurement in Context -- 9. The Wellbeing of the Australian People: Comments on the Treasury's Framework -- 10. Subjective Wellbeing and the Mismeasure of Progress -- 11. Measuring Wealth and Welfare: Why HDI and GPI Fail -- 12. Measuring Economic Progress: From Political Arithmetick to Social Accounts -- 13. The Mismeasure of Nations: A Review Essay on the Human Development Report 1998 -- 14. Measuring Economic Progress -- 15. Reporting on Human Development: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics -- 16. International Comparisons of GDP: Issues of Theory and Practice -- Part Three: Measuring Inequality -- 17. What Can We Learn from International Evidence on Trends in Income Distribution? -- 18. Changes in Inequality in Australia and the Redistributional Impacts of Taxes and Government Benefits -- 19. What Difference Does Government Make? Measuring Redistribution in a Comparative Perspective -- 20. Money Income Distribution and Redistribution in Australia, Sweden and the United States 1984 -- 21. Living Standards in Sydney and Japanese Cities: A Comparison -- Part Four: Climate Change and Limits to Growth -- 22. Climate Change and Related Issues: Ian Castles' Contributions in Perspective. 23. Addressing Wellbeing in the Long-Term: a Review of Intergenerational Equity and Discount Rates in Climate Change Analysis -- 24. Limits to Growth … Again -- 25. Scientists, Statisticians and the Prophets of Doom -- 26. Global Warming and the 'Scientific Consensus' 1939-2001 -- 27. Ian Castles and the IPCC - Selected Letters -- 28. The Stern Review: A Dual Critique.
Australia continues to be at the forefront of international work on measuring and promoting wellbeing, Ian Castles being a significant contributor over the last forty years as an official and academic. This book combines a selection of Castles' important work with contemporary research from a range of contributors.