经济史上使用人类发展指数的几个问题

IF 1.2 1区历史学 Q3 ECONOMICS

European Review of Economic History Pub Date : 2023-04-26 DOI:10.1093/ereh/head008

Nicola Amendola, Giacomo Gabbuti, Giovanni Vecchi

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摘要

本文提供了一个理论框架，表明人类发展指数(HDI)相当于家长式的社会福利函数:这意味着经济史学家使用的所有替代HDI公式仅仅代表了他们的道德体系。问题既不在于人类发展指数所包含的维度的选择，也不在于加权方案，而在于与标准经济理论缺乏一致性。一个关键的结果是，有了HDI，“一切皆有可能”:以意大利1861-2016为案例研究，我们展示了如何在给定相同数据集的情况下，对意大利表现的解释完全由分析师的偏好驱动。

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On some problems of using the Human Development Index in economic history

Abstract This paper provides a theoretical framework that shows that the Human Development Index (HDI) is equivalent to a paternalistic social welfare function: this implies that all alternative HDI formulas used by economic historians merely represent their ethical systems. The problem is neither the choice of the dimensions included in the HDI nor the weighting scheme but the lack of consistency with standard economic theory. A key consequence is that with HDI, “anything goes”: using Italy 1861–2016 as a case study, we show how, given the same dataset, the interpretation of Italy’s performance is entirely driven by the analyst’s preferences.

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