1994 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Resources and Functionings: A New View of Inequality in Australia
verfasst von : C. A. Knox Lovell, Peter Travers, Sue Richardson, Lisa Wood
Erschienen in: Models and Measurement of Welfare and Inequality
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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The degree of inequality in the levels of well-being of its citizens tells us a great deal about a society. It enables us to judge its social and economic system, to identify those citizens with a claim on community compassion, to identify the sources of hardship, and to devise strategies for reducing levels of hardship. The value of such information is undoubted. But we confront a severe practical problem in first defining, and then measuring, what we mean by well-being. It is surely multi-dimensional, and difficult to reduce to a scalar-valued index.