Judit Gébert
My main interest is how to understand human well-being from an economic and philosophical perspective. Currently, I’m working in participatory action research with a school for deaf and hard of hearing children. The aim of the process is the expansion of capabilities – as understood by Amartya Sen – of people living with disabilities, generating transformation on the level of individuals and the community through empowerment.
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clear that the informational base of the System of National Accounts (SNA) is far too narrow to include many
aspects of well-being. Many economists emphasise that new economic measures which are more sensitive to
the social and environmental aspects of decision-making are needed (van den Bergh 2007, Stiglitz et al. 2009)
in order to make social decision-making itself sensitive to such aspects. It is small wonder that we encounter a
great many sustainability and well-being indicators in economic literature (Böhringer-Jochem 2007).
In our paper, we establish a model for the well-being measurement of sub-regions based on contemporary
welfare economics. Based on our model we operationalise and measure well-being at a sub-regional level
within Hungary using statistical data. Our research shows that (1) well-being measurement at a sub-regional
level reveals tendencies which are masked by traditional economic and competitiveness analysis and (2) wellbeing
measurement has serious limitations, i.e. there is a significant measurement gap between the theoretical
models of well-being and their operationalisation based on statistical data sets.
clear that the informational base of the System of National Accounts (SNA) is far too narrow to include many
aspects of well-being. Many economists emphasise that new economic measures which are more sensitive to
the social and environmental aspects of decision-making are needed (van den Bergh 2007, Stiglitz et al. 2009)
in order to make social decision-making itself sensitive to such aspects. It is small wonder that we encounter a
great many sustainability and well-being indicators in economic literature (Böhringer-Jochem 2007).
In our paper, we establish a model for the well-being measurement of sub-regions based on contemporary
welfare economics. Based on our model we operationalise and measure well-being at a sub-regional level
within Hungary using statistical data. Our research shows that (1) well-being measurement at a sub-regional
level reveals tendencies which are masked by traditional economic and competitiveness analysis and (2) wellbeing
measurement has serious limitations, i.e. there is a significant measurement gap between the theoretical
models of well-being and their operationalisation based on statistical data sets.