First of all, we would like to thank the discussants for the care and thoughtfulness that they have taken in preparing their comments. Koehler presents a helpful discussion, putting forward a number of different ideas that generalize the approach taken. A taxonomy for technical system elicitation would provide useful guidance for practitioners and serve to codify applicable assumptions during t...

objectives: there have been numerous attempts to construct non-monetary indices of social and economic satisfaction by combining in a single statistic a variety of different factors that are thought to influence human well-being. method: the concept of quality of life (qol) as an aggregate measure of people’s well-being in a certain country, region, or social stratum. the economist intelligence...