Ecosystems provide many of the material building blocks for human well-being. Although
quantification and appreciation of such contributions have rapidly grown, our dependence …

Policy making has long focused on economic growth as measured by gross domestic
product (GDP), diverting attention from sustainable wellbeing for all. Despite high-quality …

abstract Rooted in the notion of inclusive capitalism, the Bottom‐of‐the‐Pyramid (BoP)
approach argues for the simultaneous pursuit of profit and social welfare by creating markets …

In spite of recurrent criticism and an impressive production of alternative indicators by
scholars and NGOs, GDP remains the central indicator of countries' success. This book …

A leading economist discusses the potential of happiness research (the quantification of well-
being) to answer important questions that standard economics methods are unable to …

IN the last decade, the capability approach has become increasingly prominent in academia
and policy making. The core claim of the capability approach is that assessments of the well …

This paper critically examines the various approaches to the measurement of individual well-
being and social welfare that have been considered for the construction of alternatives to …

This paper is motivated by sustained interest in the capabilities approach to welfare
economics combined with the paucity of economic statistics that measure capabilities at the …

Recent years have brought a dramatic rise in the number of efforts to measure and monitor
the status of children. Yet, despite numerous efforts and reports with 'Child indicators' in the …

Justice has recently been deliberated in different spatial disciplines. Still, the question of its
metrics remains unresolved. Accordingly, this article introduces a conceptual framework in …