Preface
Wealth is not the good we are seeking as it merely useful for the sake of something else. … It is only a necessary condition for people to lead a prosperous life.
Aristotle
Subject of this monograph is immense and inexhaustible. The researcher who sets himself the task of measuring and comparing the quality of life and the living standards of two or a larger number of individuals or entire populations of conglomerates (regions, countries, social groups), with no further mention of the limits and conditional qualities of proposed approaches, certainly looks unrealistically ambitious. After all, even the popular and seemingly true saying that “it is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick” may be questioned if when assessing the ...
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