附註:"In association with the Levy Economics Institute."
"This volume is part of the Institute's research on 'Measuring Well-being'"--Page [ii].
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Recent trends in living standards in the United States / Edward N. Wolff -- Using expenditures to measure the standard of living in the United States : does it make a difference? / David S. Johnson -- Who has benefited from economic growth in the United States since 1969? : the case of children / Christopher Jencks, Susan E. Mayer and Joseph Swingle -- Reassessing the consumer price index : five years after the Boskin Commission / Dean Baker -- Has economic well-being improved in Canada and the United States? / Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe -- Comparing living standards across nations : real incomes at the top, the bottom, and the middle / Timothy M. Smeeding and Lee Rainwater -- Race, home ownership, and family structure in twentieth-century America / William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo -- Living standard potential and the transmission of advantage in Chile / Seymour Spilerman and Florencia Torche -- Historical perspective on the standard of living using anthropometric data / Richard H. Steckel -- Time intensity and well-being : what we can learn from time-use data / Thomas L. Hungerford and Maria S. Floro -- Measuring worker rights and labor strength in the advanced economies / Robert Buchele and Jens Christiansen -- Measuring quality of life with local indicators / Daphne T. Greenwood.
摘要:The contributors to this volume investigate to what extent welfare has increased in the United States over the postwar period and provide a rigorous examination of both conventional measures of the standard of living, as well as more inclusive indices. The chapters cover such topics as: race, home ownership and family structure; the status of children; the consumer price index; a historical perspective on the standard of living; worker rights and labor strength in advanced economies. In addition, they explore two economic systems delivering the goods--the free enterprise system of the United States and the European social welfare state. They then present international comparisons and highlight the relative advantages and disadvantages of these two systems.
