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Sustainable Well-being as an Economic Indicator: A Challenge for Economic Analysis

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  • Claudio Gnesutta

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The «Sarkozy Report» edited by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Amartya Sen and Jean-Paul Fitoussi arguedthat GDP does not provide reliable information on the economic performance and social progressof a country. The Commission expressed, rather, a preference for an indicator of «sustainable well-being»,even if, as is well documented, its effective processing entails significant difficulties. In this paper I willoutline the main implications of a vision of economic and social process that assumes present and futurewell-being as its centre. This is no purely statistical/accounting matter, for it raises more important andcomplex issues in terms both of economic analysis and economic policy that merit deeper collective research.

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  • Claudio Gnesutta, 2013. "Sustainable Well-being as an Economic Indicator: A Challenge for Economic Analysis," Rivista italiana degli economisti, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 2, pages 253-253.
    • Handle: RePEc:mul:jqat1f:doi:10.1427/73850:y:2013:i:2:p:253
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