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14<br />

Volume LXIII nn. 3-4 – Luglio-Dicembre 2009<br />

SUMMARY<br />

The current debate on the need to find in<strong>di</strong>cators or economic aggregates that are<br />

able to express <strong>di</strong>fferent <strong>di</strong>mensions of life and then to measure aspects that are not<br />

simply economic significance has become increasingly insistent. In particular, the<br />

adequacy of the GDP, it seems accor<strong>di</strong>ng to some, to represent phenomena such as<br />

happiness or well-being is strongly debated until we get to question the current<br />

para<strong>di</strong>gm of economic growth, as the ideal model of development and quality of<br />

life. Over time many attempts have been made to make accounting changes to the<br />

GDP with the specific aim of improving its representativeness. It is in this<br />

perspective that the pharmaceutical expen<strong>di</strong>ture could be an instrument for the<br />

construction of an in<strong>di</strong>cator that gives reason for the malaise of a society. The<br />

availability and <strong>di</strong>ssemination of data is still limited and does not perform an<br />

analysis that instead should be dept.<br />

______________________<br />

Fabrizio ANTOLINI, Professore associato <strong>di</strong> <strong>statistica</strong> economica<br />

Università <strong>di</strong> Teramo

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