Foreword; Alex C. Michalos and Wolfgang Zapf
Chapter 1. Monitoring and Analyzing Global Quality of Life: An Introdution
Part I. Long Term Trends of World Social Development: Health, Wealth, Democracy
Chapter 2. Demographic and Health Development in the Long Run; Frank Swiaczny
Chapter 3. Living Standards in a Modernizing World: A Long Run Perspective on Material Well-Being and Human Development; Herman de Jong
Chapter 4. Wars and Violence through the Centuries; Mathias Boes and Hinrich Rosenbrock
Chapter 5. The Worldwide Spread of Democracy; Robert K. Schaeffer
Part II. Monitoring Global Well-Being: Objective and Subjective Measurement: Objective Approaches
Chapter 6. Global Economic Accounting and its Critics; Jürgen Faik
Chapter 7. The human Development Index; Kenneth C. Land
Chapter 8. The Index of Social Progress; Richard J. Estes
Part II. Monitoring Global Well-Being: Objective and Subjective Measurement: Subjective Approaches
Chapter 9. The Overall Satisfaction with Life; Ruut Veenhoven
Chapter 10. Multi-Item Measurement of Subjective Well-Being; Robert A. Cummins and Melissa K. Weinberg
Chapter 11. The Affect Balance Scale; Norman Bradburn
Part III. Socio-Economic Structures of Well-Being
Chapter 12. Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence; Richard A. Easterlin
Chapter 13. Well-Being and Sustainable Consumption; Monica Guillen and Harold Langford Wilhite
Chapter 14. Poverty and People’s Well-Being; Mariano Rojas
Chapter 15. Well-Being and the Labor Market from a Global View: It’s not just the Money; Duncan Campbell and Roger Magi Gomis Porquet
Chapter 16. The Contributiion of Unpaid Work to Global Well-Being; Maria-Angeles Duran
Chapter 17. Welfare Production and Quality of Life; Michael Dauderstädt
Part IV. Social Structures of Well-Being
Chapter 18. Living Alone and Living Together: Their Significance for Well-Being; Liz Eckermann
Chapter 19. Worldwide View of Child Well-Being; Vicki L. Lamb and KennethC. Land
Chapter 20. Global Perspective on Quality in Later Life; Fermina Roja-Perez, Gloria Fernandez-Mayoralas and Vivente Rodriguez-Rodriguez
Chapter 21. Migration and Quality of Life in the Global Context; David Bartram
Part V. Well-Being in Nations and at Continents
Chapter 22. Quality of Life and Well-Being in North-Africa: Algeria, Eqypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia; Habib Tiliouine
Chapter 23. Shadow of the Sun: The Distribution of Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa; Benjamin J. Roberts, Steven L. Gordon, Valerie Møller and Jarè Struwig
Chapter 24. Well-Being in Canada; Simon Langlois
Chapter 25. Quality of Life in the United States; Rhonda Philips
Chapter 26. Argentina’s Economic Development and Life Satisfaction Revisited: 1984-2012; Martin Tetaz, Pablo Schiaffino and Miguel Braun
Chapter 27. Multiple Modes of Well-Being in Asia; Takashi Inoguchi
Chapter 28. The Distribution of Quality of Life in Australia; Melissa K. Weinberg and Robert A. Cummins
Chapter29. An Overview of Quality of Life in Europe; Daphne Ahrendt, Hans Dubois and Erika Mezger
Chapter 30. Well-Being in Slovakia; Jozef Džuka
Chapter 31. From Dissonance to Wellbeing and Adaption? Quality of Life in Switzerland Over the Past Decades; Christian Suter, Katia Iglesias and Jehane Moussa
Chapter 32. Living Conditions and Perceived Quality of Life Among Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic; Birgir Poppel
Part VI. Social Reporting on Well-Being in Supranational Organizations
Chapter 33. Well-Being and Quality of Life Reporting at the OECD; Romina Boarini
Chapter 34. The World Health Organization: The Case for Measuring Wellbeing in Europe; Claudia Stein and Ritu Sadana
Chapter 35. Social Reporting of the European Union: Description of the Organization; Marleen De Smedt
Chapter 36. Well-Being for All – The Aim of Social Cohesion: Developing the Approach at the Council of Europe; Gilda Farell
Part VII. Basic Dimensions of Global Well-Being
Chapter 37. Assessing theSubjective Wellbeing of Nations; Filomena Maggino
Chapter 38. Cultural Construal of Wellbeing: Theories and Empirical Evidence; Yukiko Uchida, Yuji Ogihara and Shintaro Fukushima
Chapter 39. Satisfaction and Happiness: The Bright Side of Quality of Life; Louis Tay, Lauren Kuykendall and Ed Diener
Chapter 40. Worries and Pain: The Dark Side of Quality of Life; Wolfgang Glatzer
Chapter 41. Hopes and Fears: Future Views of Quality of Life; Jennifer Gulyas.