The Balanced Development Index for Europe’s OECD Countries, 1999–2017

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: GDP Shortcomings and a Brief History of Creating General Measures of Socio-Economic Development -- Chapter 3: Conceptual and Theoretical Basis of Balanced Development Index (BDI) -- Chapter 4: To Weight or Not to Weight? -- Chapter 5: Four Domains of Socio-Economic Development and their Indicators as BDI Components -- Chapter 6: International Differences in the Level and Pace of Socio-Economic Development -- Chapter 7: Chainges in BDI, its Four Components and GDP -- Chapter 8: BDI, Other Composite Measures of Socio-Economic Conditions and Happiness -- Chapter 9: Case Study: Poland -- Chapter 10: Emotional and Rational Countries -- Chapter 11: Development and Socio-Economic Balance -- Chapter 12: Conclusions.