Measuring well-being: W3 indicators to complement GDP

Abstract: "Numerous people in Germany, including politicians and researchers, believe that the gross domestic product (GDP) is an outdated indicator of a society’s prosperity. Therefore, at the end of 2010, the German Bundestag, the federal parliament, established a study commission (Enquete-Kommission) tasked with developing an alternative to the GDP for measuring growth, prosperity, and quality of life. This commission has now submitted a proposal: to supplement the GDP with nine additional indicators, including a wide range of factors such as the distribution of income, biodiversity, and life expectancy. The ten indicators cover three dimensions of well-being-economy, ecology, and social wealth-and hence are called W3 Indicators. Replacing the gross domestic product by a single alternative index was rejected by the commission, however, since it is not possible to reduce citizens' very different wishes and expectations to "a common denominator". A representative survey of registered voters

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource, 18 S.
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Veröffentlichungsversion

Erschienen in
RatSWD Working Paper Series ; Bd. 217

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2013
Urheber
Giesselmann, Marco
Hilmer, Richard
Siegel, Nico A.
Wagner, Gert G.
Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen
Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD)

URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019072515421247310176
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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