Nicky Pouw Bücher

The book delves into the integration of gender perspectives within microeconomics, emphasizing the development of innovative gender-aware indicators. It provides a framework for understanding how gender influences economic wellbeing and offers practical guidance for incorporating these insights into economic analysis. Through this approach, readers gain tools to assess and enhance gender equity in economic contexts, fostering a more inclusive understanding of wellbeing.

Amidst rising global inequality, migration, climate change, health pandemics, and deepening poverty, it is time to redirect our economy towards more sustainable and socially just processes and outcomes. In Wellbeing Economics Nicky Pouw puts forward a new framework that places human wellbeing at the centre, instead of economic growth. She postulates ten reasons why economics should change to remain a relevant discipline and develops a Wellbeing Economic Matrix (WEM) to implement this approach. In doing so, it is one of the first economics books that 'rethinks the economy' from head to tail