If GDP is Not the Answer, What is the Question? The Juncture of Capabilities, Institutions and Measurement in the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Report

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 363-372

  Tsai, Ming Chang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Capacities theory; Human development; Social indicators; Social institutions; Wellbeing

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL INDICATOR; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 85027936958     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-011-9839-0     Document Type: Article

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