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Comparing Lives

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  • Fredrik Barth

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The construction of quality of life indicators seeks to transform a fundamentally subjective and experiential concept - the quality of lives as lived by actual people - into an objective and globally applicable measuring instrument. The article critiques some of the assumptions that are necessary to construct such a measure, and makes a plea for the use of a more appropriate and felicitous procedure for comparing variations in the quality of life.

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  • Fredrik Barth, 1999. "Comparing Lives," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 5(2), pages 95-98.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:5:y:1999:i:2:p:95-98
    DOI: 10.1080/135457099337987
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