Susan Oman, "Understanding Well-being Data: Improving Social and Cultural Policy, Practice and Research" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
New Books in Economics
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The Importance of Governments Measuring Well Being
The book is critical of the way governments use ideas of well being and indeed, measures to do anything. I think it's also important that to point out that policy decisions do need to be accountable in some way. So these kind of moves toward measuring well being understand staff serve different purposes at different levels of society. Rather than comparing measures across different domains to understand impact of one thing and how it affects many things, youre instead looking at overtime.
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