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Amsterdam University Press
Amidst rising global inequality, migration, climate change, health pandemics, and deepening poverty, it is time to redirect our economy towards more sustainable and socially just processes and outcomes. In 'Wellbeing Economics' Nicky Pouw puts forward a new framework that places human wellbeing at the centre, instead of economic growth. She postulates ten reasons why economics should change to... Read more
Foreword, Acknowledgments, Ten reasons why economics needs to change 1 Introduction 2 Economics (really) needs to change 3 A focus on wellbeing 4 What is economics? 5 The Wellbeing Economics Matrix (WEM) 6 Implications for methodology 7 A focus on inequality 8 A sustainable economy 9 New indicators 10 Looking ahead, Bibliography, About the author, Index
Biography
Nicky Pouw is associate professor in the Economics of Wellbeing at the Governance and Inclusive Development group at the University of Amsterdam. She is author of Introduction to Gender and Wellbeing in Microeconomics (2017) and co-editor of The Wellbeing of Women in Entrepreneurship. A Global Perspective (2019).
