BETTER LIFE INDEX AS A MEASURE OF PROSPERITY (Indeks Lepszego Zycia jako miernik dobrobytu)

• Authors: Szostek Dawid J.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Article contains a critique of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which is considered, even by many experts, as an optimal measure of the social welfare. Meanwhile, the index has many shortcomings, and the consequence is- that despite the increasing GDP- the level of human life may be getting lower. Therefore, for several decades the economists have been looking for more adequate measures of welfare, such as economic, social and psychological measures. An interesting proposal of this type of index is the Better Life Index (BLI), proposed by the OECD, which allows making a holistic approach to the issue of social welfare. The article contains the discussion of the components of this index and the position of Poland compared to other countries in the ranking, based on BLI.

Keywords

EN

BETTER LIFE INDEX; GDP; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; WELFARE

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Spółdzielczy Instytut Naukowy G. Bierecki sp.j.
• Journal: Pieniądze i Więź
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 3(52)
• Pages: 123-131
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Szostek Dawid J.

• Dawid Szostek, Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika, Wydzial Nauk Ekonomicznych i Zarzadzania, Katedra Marketingu, Handlu i Logistyki, ul. Gagarina 13, 87-100 Torun, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA097619