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BIEN-ETRE COLLECTIF [1 record]

Record 1 2024-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic and Industrial Sociology
  • Economic Planning
CONT

Taken together, these trends and pressures create an environment where public policy: ... often has increasingly critical implications for future social, economic and environmental well-being.

OBS

A general descriptive term for the well-being of society as a whole. ... its measurement, or a comparison between the social welfare of two societies ... is difficult. ... Money can measure the Gross National Product, which has weaknesses as an indicator of social welfare.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie économique et industrielle
  • Planification économique
OBS

[...] on peut adresser [des critiques] à la notion du revenu national, pris, par exemple, comme indicateur du bien-être collectif, même interprété en son sens strictement économique [...] [du fait qu'il ne tient] aucun compte de l'état de la répartition des revenus et qu'il ne [permet] pas de comptabiliser toutes les «nuisances» (encombrement, pollutions, bruit, etc.) qui accompagnent son accroissement [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sociología industrial y económica
  • Planificación económica
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