Wellbeing Economics

Author : Paul Dalziel,Caroline Saunders,Joe Saunders
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319931944

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Wellbeing Economics by Paul Dalziel,Caroline Saunders,Joe Saunders Pdf

Economists have long sought to maximise economic growth, believing this to be their best contribution to improving human welfare. That approach is not sustainable in the face of ongoing issues such as global climate change, environmental damage, rising inequality and enduring poverty. Alternatives must be found. This open access book addresses that challenge. It sets out a wellbeing economics framework that directly addresses fundamental issues affecting wellbeing outcomes. Drawing inspiration from the capabilities approach of Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, the book demonstrates how persons can enhance prosperity through their own actions and through collaboration with others. The book examines national public policy, but its analysis also focuses on choices made by individuals, households, families, civil society, local government and the global community. It therefore offers important insights for anyone concerned with improving personal wellbeing and community prosperity.

Author : Nicky Pouw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9463723854

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Wellbeing Economics by Nicky Pouw Pdf

Author : David McDaid,Cary Cooper
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781118716281

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Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, Economics of Wellbeing by David McDaid,Cary Cooper Pdf

Part of the six-volume Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, this is a comprehensive look at the economics of wellbeing with coverage of history, research, policy, and practice. Examines the challenges inherent in studying and measuring wellbeing from an economic perspective Discusses strategies and interventions to improve wellbeing across the lifespan and in different settings Addresses the potential economic benefits for governments and policymakers of actively investing in initiatives to improve wellbeing, from the workplace to the home to the natural environment Emphasizes the need to strengthen the evidence base for the economics of wellbeing and improve methods for translating research into policy and practice

Author : Paul Revill,Marc Suhrcke,Rodrigo Moreno-serra,Mark Sculpher
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789813272385

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Global Health Economics: Shaping Health Policy In Low- And Middle-income Countries by Paul Revill,Marc Suhrcke,Rodrigo Moreno-serra,Mark Sculpher Pdf

This book contains a collection of works showcasing the latest research into global health economics conducted by leading experts in the field from the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at the University of York and other partner research institutions. Each chapter focuses upon an important topic in global health economics and a number of separate research projects. The discussion delves into health care policy evaluation; economic evaluation; econometric and other analytic methods; health equity and universal health coverage; consideration of cost-effectiveness thresholds and opportunity costs in the health sector; health system challenges and possible solutions; and others. Case study examples from a variety of low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) settings are also showcased in the final part of this volume.The research presented seeks to contribute toward increasing understanding on how health policy can be enhanced to improve the welfare of LMIC populations. It is strongly recommended for public health policymakers and analysts in low- and middle-income country settings and those affiliated to international health organizations and donor organizations.

Author : Nicoletta Batini
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781642831610

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The Economics of Sustainable Food by Nicoletta Batini Pdf

The Economics of Sustainable Food details the true cost of food for people and the planet. It illustrates how to transform our broken system, alleviating its severe financial and human burden. The key is smart macroeconomic policy that moves us toward methods that protect the environment like regenerative land and sea farming, low-impact urban farming, and alternative protein farming, and toward healthy diets. The book's multidisciplinary team of authors lay out detailed fiscal and trade policies, as well as structural reforms, to achieve those goals. Chapters discuss strategies to make food production sustainable, nutritious, and fair, ranging from taxes and spending to education, labor market, health care, and pension reforms, alongside regulation in cases where market incentives are unlikely to work or to work fast enough. The authors carefully consider the different needs of more and less advanced economies, balancing economic development and sustainability goals. Case studies showcase successful strategies from around the world, such as taxing foods with a high carbon footprint, financing ecosystems mapping and conservation to meet scientific targets for healthy biomes permanency, subsidizing sustainable land and sea farming, reforming health systems to move away from sick care to preventive, nutrition-based care, and providing schools with matching funds to purchase local organic produce.--Amazon.

Author : Paul Dalziel,Caroline Saunders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : 1927277604

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Wellbeing Economics by Paul Dalziel,Caroline Saunders Pdf

Author : Dennis Trewin,Andrew Podger
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 797 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781925021325

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Measuring and Promoting Wellbeing by Dennis Trewin,Andrew Podger Pdf

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. The material is in four parts: 1. The role of economics in defining and promoting wellbeing 2. Measuring real income and wellbeing 3. Measuring inequality 4. Climate change and the limits to growth. The issues canvassed are both long-standing and current. Does economic growth contribute to wellbeing? How different is income to wellbeing? How do we measure societal wellbeing and take its distribution into account? The book will be of value to all those looking to informed debate on global challenges such as reducing poverty, sustaining the environment and advancing the quality of life, including politicians, commentators, officials and academics.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264728448

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How's Life? 2020 Measuring Well-being by OECD Pdf

How’s Life? charts whether life is getting better for people in 37 OECD countries and 4 partner countries. This fifth edition presents the latest evidence from an updated set of over 80 indicators, covering current well-being outcomes, inequalities, and resources for future well-being.

Author : Nicolette Rosa Maria Pouw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 904855358X

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Wellbeing Economics by Nicolette Rosa Maria Pouw Pdf

Amidst rising global inequality, migration, climate change, health pandemics, and deepening poverty, it is time to redirect our economy towards more sustainable and socially just processes and outcomes. In Wellbeing Economics Nicky Pouw puts forward a new framework that places human wellbeing at the centre, instead of economic growth. She postulates ten reasons why economics should change to remain a relevant discipline and develops a Wellbeing Economic Matrix (WEM) to implement this approach. In doing so, it is one of the first economics books that 'rethinks the economy' from head to tail. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.

Author : Joachim Weimann,Andreas Knabe,Ronnie Schöb
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262028448

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Measuring Happiness by Joachim Weimann,Andreas Knabe,Ronnie Schöb Pdf

Can money buy happiness? Is income a reliable measure for life satisfaction? In this book, three economists explore the happiness-prosperity connection, investigating how economists measure life satisfaction and well-being. --

Author : Nicky Pouw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317562795

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An Introduction to Gender and Wellbeing in Microeconomics by Nicky Pouw Pdf

An Introduction to Gender and Wellbeing in Microeconomics explains how to set up the basics of designing a gender-aware approach to microeconomics by constructing creative gender-aware indicators. Using a wellbeing economics framework, the book argues that economic models should take power differences such as those inherent with gender into account, and be complemented by more qualitative analysis geared to discovering the ‘how’ and ‘why’ behind the ‘what’ questions. This book will be essential reading for academic and professional researchers, as well as policy researchers in gender and economics, international development, and social and economic policy. It will be invaluable for courses relating gender to the economy, and will enable readers to get a clear and concise understanding of the gendered character of the economy and of economic policy.

Author : Paul Dalziel,Caroline Saunders
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781927247990

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Wellbeing Economics by Paul Dalziel,Caroline Saunders Pdf

New Zealand is recognised as having been a pioneer in creating in 1938 what was arguably the Western world’s first comprehensive welfare state … we argue in this book that more than seventy-five years later there is a new opportunity for New Zealand to pioneer a further transformation in how a country enhances the wellbeing of its people. Seventy-five years after Labour’s social security reforms of the 1930s, it is time for a major shift in how New Zealand regards the wellbeing of its people. Instead of measuring economic growth for its own sake, we should be assessing how well it enables New Zealanders to lead ‘the kinds of lives they value and have reason to value’. Wellbeing economics is famously defined by Professor Amartya Sen as: ‘the expansion of the “capabilities” of people to lead the kinds of lives they value and have reason to value’. Exploring the wellbeing economics concept of ‘value-added growth’, this analysis spans from personal to national growth, calling for New Zealand’s transformation from the traditional ‘welfare state’ to a progressive ‘wellbeing state’.

Author : Frank A. Sloan,Chee-Ruey Hsieh
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 839 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262035118

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Health Economics, second edition by Frank A. Sloan,Chee-Ruey Hsieh Pdf

The new edition of a textbook that combines economic concepts with empirical evidence, updated with material on the Affordable Care Act and other developments. This book introduces students to the growing research field of health economics. Rather than offer details about health systems without providing a theoretical context, Health Economics combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to enhance readers' economic understanding of how health care institutions and markets function. The theoretical and empirical approaches draw heavily on the general field of applied microeconomics, but the text moves from the individual and firm level to the market level to a macroeconomic view of the role of health and health care within the economy as a whole. The book takes a global perspective, with description and analysis of institutional features of health sectors in countries around the world. This second edition has been updated to include material on the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, material on the expansion of health insurance in Massachusetts, and an evaluation of Oregon's Medicaid expansion via lottery. The discussion of health care and health insurance in China has been substantially revised to reflect widespread changes there. Tables and figures have been updated with newly available data. Also new to this edition is a discussion of the health economics literature published between 2010 and 2015. The text includes readings, extensive references, review and discussion questions, and exercises. A student solutions manual offers solutions to selected exercises. Downloadable supplementary material is available for instructors.

Author : Leonardo Becchetti,Luigino Bruni,Stefano Zamagni
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780128162927

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The Microeconomics of Wellbeing and Sustainability by Leonardo Becchetti,Luigino Bruni,Stefano Zamagni Pdf

The Microeconomics of Wellbeing and Sustainability: Recasting the Economic Process explores the civil economy tradition in economic thought. Gaining increasing consensus worldwide, this alternative—not heterodox—view of the economic process and agents explains how modern economics is placing increasing emphasis on the determinants of subjective wellbeing and environmental sustainability. With support from behavioral economics, this book makes a foundational contribution that will help users better understand and prepare for future economic challenges. Marries criticism of the neo-classical model with empirical work on the possibilities of alternative frameworks for action Links new ideas (homo reciprocans, happiness, relational goods) to established microeconomic concepts (the market, perfect and imperfect competition, utility maximization) Devotes specific attention to relevant elements in economic history, explaining how we evolved to the current paradigm and to its challenge

Author : Joe Saunders,Caroline Saunders,Paul Dalziel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1013271963

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Wellbeing Economics by Joe Saunders,Caroline Saunders,Paul Dalziel Pdf

Economists have long sought to maximise economic growth, believing this to be their best contribution to improving human welfare. That approach is not sustainable in the face of ongoing issues such as global climate change, environmental damage, rising inequality and enduring poverty. Alternatives must be found. This open access book addresses that challenge. It sets out a wellbeing economics framework that directly addresses fundamental issues affecting wellbeing outcomes. Drawing inspiration from the capabilities approach of Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, the book demonstrates how persons can enhance prosperity through their own actions and through collaboration with others. The book examines national public policy, but its analysis also focuses on choices made by individuals, households, families, civil society, local government and the global community. It therefore offers important insights for anyone concerned with improving personal wellbeing and community prosperity. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.