Comparing Lives

Fredrik Barth

Feminist Economics, 1999, vol. 5, issue 2, 95-98

Abstract: The construction of quality of life indicators seeks to transform a fundamentally subjective and experiential concept - the quality of lives as lived by actual people - into an objective and globally applicable measuring instrument. The article critiques some of the assumptions that are necessary to construct such a measure, and makes a plea for the use of a more appropriate and felicitous procedure for comparing variations in the quality of life.

Keywords: Quality Of Life; Cultural Variation; Institutional Analysis; Perspectival Approaches (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1080/135457099337987

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