Format:
1 online resource (458 pages)
ISBN:
9789633863527
Content:
Cover -- Front matter -- Title page -- copyright page -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction: Comparisons and the Triple Approach to Well-Being -- 1.1 Economic Growth, Consumption, and Quality of Life in Comparative Research -- 1.2 The Aims and Scope of Research -- 1.3 Methods and Sources -- 1.4 The Structure of the Volume -- 2 Economic Growth: Catching Up and Falling Behind -- 2.1 Measuring Economic Output -- 2.2 Trends and Stages of Growth in Western Europe -- 2.3 Trajectories of Growth in East Central Europe -- 3 Consumption: Structures, Practices, and Policies -- 3.1 Changing Consumption Patterns in Western Europe -- 3.2 Consumption in Communist East Central Europe -- 4 Quality of Life: Towards a More Comprehensive Understanding of Well-Being -- 4.1 Conceptual and Methodological Issues -- 4.2 Trajectories of Well-Being in Western Europe -- 4.3 The Quality of Life in East Central Europe -- 5 Determinants of Change: Accounting for Growth and Beyond -- 5.1 Factors of Economic Growth -- 5.2 Determinants of the Quality of Life -- 5.3 Causes of Convergence and Divergence -- 6 Passages to the New Millennium: The Evolving Order of Divisions -- 6.1 Economic Growth in Western Europe at the Turn of the Millennium: Changes in the Quality of Life -- 6.2 East Central Europe after the Regime Change: Economic Transformation, Consumer Aspirations, and the Pursuit of Well-Being -- 7 Conclusions: Lessons of the Triple Approach -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789633863510
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789633863510
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789633863527
