Formatted Contents Note:
Economic growth, wellbeing, and protecting the future: an overview of the Castles Symposium / Andrew Podger, Dennis Trewin and William Gort - Part one. The role of economics in defining and promoting wellbeing - Economic growth and wellbeing: Ian Castles' contribution / Michael Keating - Ian Castles: scholar as truth teller / William Coleman - Economics and anti-economics / Ian Castles - Economic growth: is it worth having? / Ian Castles and Treasury - Part two. Measuring real income and wellbeing - Measuring progress: the international context / Brian Pink, Sue Taylor and Hannah Wetzler - The four approaches to measuring wellbeing / John Hawkins - The need for wellbeing measurement in context / David Gruen and Duncan Spender - The wellbeing of the Australian people: comments on the Treasury's framework / Jonathan Pincus - Subject wellbeing and the mismeasure of progress / Richard Eckersley - Measuring wealth and welfare: why HDI and GPI fail ; Measuring economic progress: from political arithmetick to social accounts ; The mismeasure of nations: a review essay on the Human Development Report 1998 ; Measuring economic progress ; Reporting on human development: lies, damned lies, and statistics / Ian Castles - International comparisons of GDP: issues of theory and practice / Ian Castles and David Henderson - Part three. Measuring inequality - What can we learn from international evidence on trends in income distribution? / Henry Ergas - Changes in inequality in Australia and the redistributional impacts of taxes and government benefits / J Rob Bray - What difference does government make? Measuring redistribution in a comparative perspective / Peter Whiteford - Money income distribution and redistribution in Australia, Sweden and the United States 1984 ; Living standards in Sydney and Japanese cities: a comparison / Ian Castles - Part four. Climate change and limits to growth - Climate change and related issues: Ian Castles' contributions in perspective / David Henderson - Addressing wellbeing in the long-term: a review of intergenerational equity and discount rates in climate change analysis / Mark Harrison - Limits to growth ... again / Jeff Bennett - Scientists, statisticians and the prophets of doom ; Global warming and the 'scientific consensus' 1939-2001 / Ian Castles - Ian Castles and the IPCC: selected letters - The Stern review: a dual critique / Alan Peacock [and others].
