The paper discusses common approaches to quality of life and human well – being issues. It provides a literature overview of most recent concepts in this field. The idea of Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index has been opposed to the most popular measure of human life quality – the Gross Domestic Product. Moreover, it aims at attiring the attention of economists to the need for enlarging their quantitative research instrumentarium by qualitative indicators. Finally, the authors propose their own index, that incorporates both qualitative and quantitative drivers of well – being into one aggregated measure
Happiness research is on the rise, but is confounded by competing definitions of subjective well-bei...
The paper discusses the concept and features of life quality as a socio-economic category. The main ...
Well-being is becoming a concept which is more and more involved in any world development considera...
The global financial crisis brings a crisis of confidence in the traditional ways of measuring welfa...
Over the past decade, increasing effort has been made to develop both national and global indices of...
Before the industrial revolution, living standards largely hinged on population size. With the adven...
The ongoing research activity of economists who study what constitutes happiness and make recommenda...
Motivated by both: academic research illuminating the diminishing returns nature of the relationship...
The aim of this paper is to present the analysis of measurement of economic well-being by the index ...
The most widely used measurement of economies around the world is the gross domestic product (GDP). ...
Governments are becoming interested in the concept of human well-being and how truly to assess it. A...
textabstractABSTRACT<br/> One of the aims of social indicator research is to develop a comprehensive...
Background Recent trends on measurement of well-being have elevated the scientific standards and rig...
This author examines subjective indicators of well-being as they relate to the happiness movement, a...
A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics...
Happiness research is on the rise, but is confounded by competing definitions of subjective well-bei...
The paper discusses the concept and features of life quality as a socio-economic category. The main ...
Well-being is becoming a concept which is more and more involved in any world development considera...
The global financial crisis brings a crisis of confidence in the traditional ways of measuring welfa...
Over the past decade, increasing effort has been made to develop both national and global indices of...
Before the industrial revolution, living standards largely hinged on population size. With the adven...
The ongoing research activity of economists who study what constitutes happiness and make recommenda...
Motivated by both: academic research illuminating the diminishing returns nature of the relationship...
The aim of this paper is to present the analysis of measurement of economic well-being by the index ...
The most widely used measurement of economies around the world is the gross domestic product (GDP). ...
Governments are becoming interested in the concept of human well-being and how truly to assess it. A...
textabstractABSTRACT<br/> One of the aims of social indicator research is to develop a comprehensive...
Background Recent trends on measurement of well-being have elevated the scientific standards and rig...
This author examines subjective indicators of well-being as they relate to the happiness movement, a...
A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics...
Happiness research is on the rise, but is confounded by competing definitions of subjective well-bei...
The paper discusses the concept and features of life quality as a socio-economic category. The main ...
Well-being is becoming a concept which is more and more involved in any world development considera...