Macroeconomic Measurement: Environmental and Social Dimensions

By Pratistha Rajkarnikar, Neva Goodwin and Brian Roach
This module, drawn from the fifth chapter of Macroeconomics in Context, presents an overview of innovations in national accounting related to measuring well-being. The module describes satellite accounts for the environment, methods of counting household production and the construction of well-being indicators such as the Genuine Progress Indicator, the Better Life Index and the Human Development Index.
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