Measuring human well-being in Thailand : a normative social choice approach
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01/05/2006
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Resumo |
Numerous methods exist within the literature to measure human well-being. A limitation of some approaches however is that they fail to explicitly consider society's views, choices and preferences on how human well-being should be defined. It is possible though to explicitly incorporate society's value judgements in defining and measuring human well-being through normative social choice theory. Normative social choice theory reflects the views, opinions and perspectives of societies of differing economic and social circumstances so that measures of human well-being retain their relevance for public policy makers in those countries. This paper reviews two indicators based on this theory for Thailand over the 25 year period, 1975-1999. The first indicator focuses on certain hierarchical needs and the second is a measure of adjusted national income. It is concluded that both measures provide important insights.<br /> |
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Idioma(s) |
eng |
Publicador |
Routledge |
Relação |
http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30004347/clarke-measuringhuman-2006.pdf http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13547860600591028 |
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2006, Taylor & Francis |
Palavras-Chave | #Thailand #well-being #social choice theory #economic growth |
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Journal Article |