Some Broader Implications of Behavior Settings for the Social Sciences

Abstract

Chapters 1 through 8 have been concerned with the two major problems facing social system accounting: how to measure and account for nonmarket activities and how to combine social and economic indicators. These chapters developed various aspects of our proposed solution--accounts based on behavior settings--including the merging of eco-behavioral data with data on industries and occupations in a comprehensive time-allocation framework. This framework could be implemented consistently at the national level, at the level of a town and its trade area (under favorable geographical conditions), and at the levels of successively larger urban-centered regions including BEA Economic Areas which constitute an exhaustive partitioning of the United States.