Beyond GDP: The Quest for a Measure of Social Welfare

By Marc Fleurbaey. 2009

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Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Economic resilience: definition and measurement (2014, background): “Third, GDP is known to be a poor proxy for welfare because it does not capture wealth (e.g., stocks of assets) and does not account for inequality and distributional effects (Fleurbaey, 2009).”
Weights in Multidimensional Indices of Wellbeing: An Overview (2013, neutral): “We thank Sabina Alkire, Tony Atkinson, Laurens Cherchye, Lucio Esposito, Francisco Ferreira, Alessio Fusco, Marc Fleurbaey, James E. Foster, Ori Heffetz, Nicky Rogge, Luc Van Ootegem, Elsy Verhofstadt as well as participants at the OPHI workshop on Weighting Dimensions (2008). We are especially grat”
Beyond GDP? Welfare Across Countries and Time (2016, background): “…David Weil, Alwyn Young, and seminar participants at Chicago Booth, the Minneapolis Fed, Pomona, and Stanford for helpful comments, to David Laibson for a conversation that inspired this project, and to Gabriela Calderon, Siddharth Kothari, and Ariana Poursartip for excellent research assistance.”
Is happiness different from flourishing? Cross-Country Evidence from the ESS (2011, background): “One key question that can then be asked is the extent to which these measures overlap: is hedonic pleasure just one element of individual’s functionings (Deci and Ryan, 2008, and Fleurbaey, 2009)?”
Life Satisfaction and Air Quality in Europe (2012, background): “D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E S Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Institute for the Study of Labor Life Satisfaction and Air Quality in Europe IZA DP No. 6732 July 2012 Susana Ferreira Alpaslan Akay Finbarr Brereton Juncal Cuñado Peter Martinsson Mirko Moro”
Long-Run Effects of Lottery Wealth on Psychological Well-Being (2018, positive): “At the societal level, subjective well-being data are increasingly used in welfare analysis (e.g. Frey and Stutzer, 2002; Fleurbaey, 2009; Benjamin et al., 2014).”
Sustainable development and equity (2009, background): “Therefore, the weakness of the observed link between growth and SWB is not only debated, but it is quite compatible with a strong and firm desire in the population for ever-growing material consumption (Fleurbaey, 2009).”
Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined (2017, background): “Yet a large literature has emerged showing that GDP per capita is limited and often flawed as a measure of social and economic progress (Fleurbaey 2009; Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi 2010; Fleurbaey and Blanchet 2013; Coyle 2015).”
Beyond Technology: Demand-Side Solutions for Climate Change Mitigation (2016, background): “Liberals typically aim to satisfy revealed preferences; this can be strongly defended, for example, by specifying an equivalent-income approach that incorporates nonmonetary dimensions of well-being, such as health (146).”
The Impact of Immigration on the Well-Being of Natives (2014, neutral): “In recent years economists have started to focus on using broader measures of welfare rather than purely objective ones to proxy the utility of individuals (e.g., Deaton, 2008; Fleurbaey, 2009).”
The Material Stock–Flow–Service Nexus: A New Approach for Tackling the Decoupling Conundrum (2017, background): “Service indicators can complement GDP in such analyses, as services highlight the relevance of specific combinations of material stocks and resource flows for contributions to societal wellbeing.”
Renewable Energy in the Context of Sustainable Development (2011, background): “, the Human Development Index (HDI) or ISEW (Fleurbaey, 2009)), however, poses signifi cant challenges.”
Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Measurement (2016, background): “…that is not surveyed here: for a flavor of this work, Alkire (2002) discusses how the capability approach has been used in poverty analysis and Fleurbaey (2009) examines how this approach has inspired alternatives to GDP. Sen has not proposed an ordering of sets that would enable one to…”