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Against the Tide of Technology,

Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Robots: An automatic end for utopian thought, Nineteen Eighty-Four:

Automata: A Masculine Utopia, Nineteen Eighty-Four: Science between Utopia

Can Technological Innovation Lead us to Utopia?, Futures,

Democratic and Authoritarian Technics,

ed.). Morris William (1890), News from Nowhere,

eds.(1992), Formations of Modernity, Cambridge,

Empowering Technology: The exploration of Cyberspace,

Endgames: Questions in late political thought, Cambridge,

False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism,

Futurama: World's Fair as Utopia, Alternative Futures,

Future Shock,

High-Tech Society,

Information Technology: a Luddite analysis,

Journal for Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Studies:

Journal for Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Studies: Volume 3 /

Looking Backwards:

Powershift : Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the edge of the 21st Century,

Preparing for the Twenty-first Century,

Prophecy and Progress,

Science and Utopia: On the Social Ordering of the Future, Nineteen Eighty-Four:

Science and Utopia: The History of a Dilemma, Nineteen Eighty-Four: Science between Utopia

Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered,

The Admirable Crighton, The Guardian,

The Californian Ideology,

The Cultural Contradictions of High Tech: or the many ironies of contemporary technological optimism, Technology Pessimism, and Postmodernism,

The Descent of Icarus: Science and the Transformation of Contemporary Democracy,

The Guardian. Bacon F.

The Information Age : Economy,

The Mighty Micro: The Impact of the Computer Revolution,

The Paradoxes of Utopia:

The Post-Industrial Utopians,

The Third Wave,

The Wealth of Information: A profile of the post-industrial economy,

Theories of the Information Society,

Tools for Conviviality,

Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times,

Utopia and the Ideal Society: A study of English utopian writing 1516-1700, Cambridge,

Utopian Approaches to Technology,

Was George Orwell Wrong?: Technology and the prospects for democracy,

Technology@Utopia

This report describes the development and application of a Regional Index of Sustainable Economic Well-Being (R-ISEW), and calculates it for all English regions

Abdallah, S

Jackson, T

Marks, N

McBride, N

Nottingham Trent Institutional Repository (IRep)

Surrey Research Insight

(London: nef);

(unpublished) An Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) for Wales (1990–2005). Produced by the Welsh Economy Research Unit and the ESRC Centre for Business Relationships Accountability Sustainability and Society

A new indicator set incorporating many of the same features has recently been published as part of the revised (2005) UK Strategy. See Defra

A theoretical foundation to support the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW), Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), and other related indexes’

Additional data from Crime in England and Wales: East Midlands Region 2005/05,

Airport Activity.

Alternative progress indicators to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a means towards sustainable development (Brussels: European Parliament; Economic and Scientific Policy)

An index of sustainable economic welfare (ISEW)

An Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare for Wales: 1990–2000

An Index of Sustainable Economic Well-being: A report for NHS Health Scotland (Glasgow: NHS Health Scotland).

Annual Abstract of Statistics, op cit.

As in the Cobb & Cobb ISEW for example.

available online at www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=13101, earlier years NES data supplied by email.

Beyond money: towards an economy of well-being’

Capital Stock by sector and asset at current prices,

Case study on the use of genuine progress indicator to measure urban economic welfare in

Chasing Progress? Beyond measuring economic growth

Composite indices of human well-being: Past, present and future’World

Defra and National Environment Research Council,

EC communication to EU Council And Parliament on Wetlands protection,

Economic growth and declining social welfare (Athens: Bank of Greece).

Economic instruments for water pollution discharges. Downloaded from www.defra.gov.uk/Environment/economics/index.htm but currently unavailable

Environmental Impacts of Energy, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.

Estimates of the economic and social costs of crime in England and Wales: Costs of crime against individuals and households,

Estimates of the GPI for Vermont, Chittenden County and Burlington,

Family Expenditure Survey / Expenditure & Food Survey, CSO, Family Spending 1994-02, Data for 1999-2002 available online at www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/explorer.asp?CTG=3&SL=&E=%204366#4366 Earlier years supplied by email.

First European Quality of Life Survey: Life satisfaction, happiness and sense of belonging (Dublin: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions).

For a summary of some of this evidence see Kasser T

For an insightful discussion of this point see, for example, Christie I and Warpole K

For some evidence of sensitivity to economic variables see Di Tella

For the common good: redirecting the economy toward community, the environment, and a sustainable future (Boston:

Happiness, economics and public policy (London: Institute of Economic Affairs).

Highways Economics Note No.

HM Treasury. Data available online at www.hmtreasury.gov.uk/economic_data_and_tools/finance_spending_statistics/pes_publications/p espub_index.cfm

Household final consumption expenditure, Blue Book time series data, ONS. Data available online at www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/tsdtables1.asp?vlnk=bb

Human development: concepts and measurement’

Hushållens sparande och konsumtion, Allmänna Fölaget.

In the conventional expenditure-related calculation of GDP, there is also an assessment of net international trade (export minus imports). The difference entailed by the ISEW methodology is the inclusion of the capital aspects of overseas trade.

Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare for Scotland: a pilot study

Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting, Interim version.

Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting.

Intra-generational equity and sustainable welfare’

Is business cycle volatility costly? Evidence from surveys of subjective well-being’

Living well: A self-determination theory perspective on eudaimonia’

Manual for calculating Adjusted Net Savings (Washington DC:

Marital status and mortality: The national longitudinal mortality study’

Measuring regional progress: developing a Regional Index of Sustainable Economic Well-being (R-ISEW) for the East

Measuring the changing quality of the world’s poor: the physical Quality of Life Index

Measuring the quality of life across countries: A sensitivity analysis of well-being indices’World

National Air Emissions Inventory Data Warehouse at www.naei.org.uk/data_warehouse.php

National Travel Survey 1999-2004, DfT. Data available online at www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/statistics/datatablespublications/personal/mainresults/nts20051/

Note that we use the national rather than regional wage so as to avoid regional distortions: as with other columns we want a constant means of valuing each unit.

On the welfare significance of the National Product in a dynamic economy’.

op. cit. As Robert Kennedy recognised, these expenditures are included in GDP just like any other expenditure.

op. cit. Data from the EC's CAFÉ programme http://ec.europa.eu/environment/archives/cafe/index.htm

Overview paper for the Beyond GDP conference (Brussels: Bureau of European Policy Advisers).

Population Trends 122 (Table 1.3), ONS

presents a more detailed account of the composition of the Daly and Cobb ISEW and subsequent variations on it.

Quality of life counts – Indicators for a strategy for sustainable development for the United Kingdom: a baseline assessment.

Quality of life indexes for national policy: review and agenda for research’

Re-drawn from data in Cobb and Cobb

Regional Statistics/Regions/Agriculture/Land Use, Eurostat database.

Regional Transport Statistics 2001-2005, DfT. Data available online at www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/statistics/datatablespublications/regionaldata/rts/

Regional Transport Statistics op cit.

Regional Transport Statistics, op cit.

See for example discussions in Daly and Cobb

Setting environmental taxes for aircraft: A case study of the UK.

Sharpe A (2002) ‘An index of economic well-being for selected OECD countries’

Simplifying the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare: methodology, data sources and a case study for the Netherlands’

Since we began our work on R-ISEWs in 2006, an alternative measure has also been

Strengthening the threshold hypothesis: Economic and biophysical limits to growth’

Survey, Time Use Module,

Sustainable development indicators in your pocket

Sustainable economic welfare in Sweden: a pilot index

Sustainable economic welfare in the UK: a pilot index for the UK 1950–1996

System of National Accounts

The Alberta GPI Blueprint (Canada:

The calculation of net depletion of natural capital is complex. It involves calculating ‘resource rents’ for resources extracted during the period and subtracting the net resource discoveries during the period.

The earliest version of the Genuine Savings Index incorporated depreciation of humanmade capital, depletion of natural resource and expenditure on education. Later versions also incorporated some of the costs associated with environmental damage.

The genuine progress indicator: methodological developments and results from

The great road transport subsidy: a market place comparison with rail. (London: Railway Development Society).

The income component of HDI is GDP per capita adjusted to reflect purchasing power parity (PPP). The original HDI used adult literacy to measure access to education. From

The index of sustainable economic welfare (ISEW) as an alternative to GDP in measuring economic welfare. The result of the Austrian (revised) ISEW calculation, 1955–1992’

The Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) for a local authority: A case study in

The Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) for Italy. Worknote 5.98 (Milan: Fondazione Enrico Mattei).

The Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare for Belgium: First Attempt and Preliminary Results. MOSI Working Paper, number 27 (Brussels: Vrije Universiteit).

The Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare in Germany’

the index used a weighted average of adult literacy and mean years of schooling. Since

The limitations of this strategy are also discussed in

The limits to growth. A report to the Club of Rome (London: Pan Books). It is beyond the scope of this paper to review this literature in detail.

The real costs of motoring (Weybridge, UK: Environmental Transport Association).

The road to sustainability: GDP and future generations (Southamption:

The service flows from consumption goods with an application to Friedman's Permanent Income Hypothesis (Reading:

The Stock of Consumer Durables in the United Kingdom: New Estimates 1948-95'

The true costs of road transport

Theft of and from Vehicles (Table 7.8), Transport Trends 2001-2004, DfT. Some data available online at www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/statistics/datatablespublications/regionaldata/rts/regionaltransportstatis tics21833

These adjustments were first made in the Australian GPI. See

this calculation is made using a marginal social cost of $20 (taken from Fankhauser

Time Use Survey,

Trends in world social development: the social progress of nations

Measuring regional progress: regional index of sustainable economic well-being (R-ISEW) for all the English regions