1st Edition
The Evolution of Economic Wellbeing Progress-Driven Economic Policies in the Era of Globalization
1. Unravelling the "Wellbeing Conundrum" 2. GDP Growth Versus Wellbeing 3. "Value Pies": Roles of Governments, Businesses, and Markets 4. Case Studies 5. Evolving Wellbeing 6. Toward an Overaching Strategy 7. Appendix
Biography
Zuhayr Mikdashi is the founding Director of the Institute of Banking and Financial Management, now the Institute of Banking and Finance, at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
"For readers who value long-term universal human wellbeing over short-term narrow goals, Mikdashi provides a blueprint for progress. Readers will be inspired to support the author’s call for a periodic impartial and comprehensive State of the Globe assessment." — John Gault, economist, Co-Director of and Lecturer in the Executive Masters Program, Oil and Gas, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
"Zuhayr Mikdashi has worked tirelessly to introduce new perspectives to provide policymakers with a meaningful opportunity to pursue their development aims while, in the meantime, meeting the aspirations of the populations involved. Zuhayr Mikdashi’s rich and diverse academic, research and practice covers many fields which reflect the expansion of the range of challenges facing the globalized world. It also corresponds to the inflated content of commitments in the agendas of intergovernmental negotiations. In this respect, given the complexity of the issues, fresh avenues, which imply holistic and multidisciplinary approaches, as well as precise definitions, are indispensable." — Antoine Basile, Former UN Interregional Adviser on Investment and Technology
"A moving and cultured cri de coeur of a Levantine humanist and intellectual." — Michel Habib, University of Zurich, Switzerland
