Introduction: Quality of Life Indicators

Iulie Aslaksen, Ane Flaatten and Charlotte Koren

Feminist Economics, 1999, vol. 5, issue 2, 79-82

Abstract: Economic growth has increased the potential for a materially more fulfilling life. But economic growth has a price: it undermines the contributions of households, communities, and nature, on which all economic activity depends. How can we make visible, in economic terms, the qualities that are lost as a consequence of excessive economic activity? In the spirit of these critical discussions, Feminist Economics has initiated this issue's exploration of quality of life: Which aspects of life do economists regard as essential to the concept? What can we learn from disciplines whose traditions of quality of life research are older than ours? The ten articles that follow suggest, in the brief form allowed by the format, a number of different ways to approach these questions.

Keywords: Quality Of Life; Externalities; Economic Man; Social Reporting; Environmental Accounting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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