The Wellbeing of Nations: Meaning, Motive and Measurement

By Paul Allin. The desire to explore and understand the territory ‘beyond GDP’ is gaining momentum all the time as we seek more relevant and meaningful measures of wellbeing and progress. The topic features not only in ProgBlog and WikiProgress, but increasingly in social media channels and in many on-line forums. A new book “The Wellbeing of Nations” reflects this interest and records many local, national and cross-national initiatives to build measures of wellbeing and progress that go beyond purely economic measures, and the headline measures of GDP and GNP in particular. More...