A bold agenda for a better way to assess societal well-being, by three of the world\'s leading economists and statisticians "If we want to put people first, we have to know What matters to them, What improves their well-being, and how we can supply more of whatever that is." --Joseph E.
She lives in Paris..
She is a co-editor of For Good Measure .
Martine Durand is the chief statistician and director of statistics of the OECD.
He lives in Paris.
He is a co-author of MisMeasuring Our Lives and a co-editor of For Good Measure .
Jean-Paul Fitoussi is professor emeritus at the Institut d\'Etudes Politiques de Paris (SciencesPo), Paris, and professor at LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome.
He lives in New York City.
He is the author of The Stiglitz Report and a co-author of MisMeasuring Our Lives .
Stiglitz , a Nobel laureate in economics, is university professor at Columbia University and chief economist at the Roosevelt Institute.
About the Author Joseph E.
Essential reading for our time, it also serves as a guide for policy makers and others on how to use these new tools to fundamentally change the way we measure our lives--and to plot a radically new path forward.
This book provides an accessible overview of the last decade\'s Global movement, sparked by the original critique of GDP, and proposes a new "dashboard" of metrics to assess a society\'s health, including measures of inequality and economic vulnerability, whether growth is environmentally sustainable, and how people feel about their lives.
Now, in Measuring What Counts , Stiglitz, Fitoussi, and Martine Durand--summarizing the deliberations of a panel of experts on the measurement of economic performance and social progress hosted at the OECD, the international organization incorporating the most economically advanced countries--propose a new, "beyond GDP" agenda.
Published as MisMeasuring Our Lives by The New Press, the book sparked a Global conversation about GDP and a major Movement among scholars, policy makers, and activists to change the way we measure our economies.
Stiglitz, French economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi, and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen issued a report challenging gross domestic product (GDP) as a measure of progress and well-being.
Stiglitz In 2009, a group of economists led by Nobel laureate Joseph E.
A bold agenda for a better way to assess societal well-being, by three of the world\'s leading economists and statisticians "If we want to put people first, we have to know What matters to them, What improves their well-being, and how we can supply more of whatever that is." --Joseph E
