Wellbeing Economics

How and Why Economics Needs to Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-94-6372-385-5
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 204 mm, Gewicht: 240 g

Reihe: Amsterdam University Press

Amidst rising global inequality, migration, climate change, health pandemics, and deepening poverty, it is time to redirect our economy towards more sustainable and socially just processes and outcomes.

In 'Wellbeing Economics' Nicky Pouw puts forward a new framework that places human wellbeing at the centre, instead of economic growth. She postulates ten reasons why economics should change to remain a relevant discipline and develops a Wellbeing Economic Matrix (WEM) to implement this approach. In doing so, it is one of the first economics books that 'rethinks the economy' from head to tail.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pouw, Nicky

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wohlfahrtsökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, Acknowledgments, Ten reasons why economics needs to change 1 Introduction 2 Economics (really) needs to change 3 A focus on wellbeing 4 What is economics? 5 The Wellbeing Economics Matrix (WEM) 6 Implications for methodology 7 A focus on inequality 8 A sustainable economy 9 New indicators 10 Looking ahead, Bibliography, About the author, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nicky Pouw is associate professor in the Economics of Wellbeing at the Governance and Inclusive Development group at the University of Amsterdam. She is author of Introduction to Gender and Wellbeing in Microeconomics (2017) and co-editor of The Wellbeing of Women in Entrepreneurship. A Global Perspective (2019).