Mismeasuring our lives: why GDP doesn't add up

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In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean Paul Fitoussi, to establish a commission of leading economists to study whether Gross Domestic Product (GDP)-the most widely used measure of economic activity-is a reliable indicator of economic and social progress. The Commission was given the further task of laying out an agen…

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Full title :Mismeasuring our lives : why GDP doesn't add up / the report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress ; Joseph E. Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, And Jean-Paul Fitoussi.

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Publication Date:©2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):New Press
Place of Publication:New York, N.Y
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2010.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxxii, 136 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781595585929, 1595585923
oclc:ocn649908780
LC Classification:HB137
Dewey Decimal:339.3/1

OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION ON THE MEASUREMENT OF ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE AND SOCIAL PROGRESS AND RAPPORTEURS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; EXECUTIVE SUMMARY; 1 CLASSICAL GDP ISSUES; 2 QUALITY OF LIFE; 3 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTAND ENVIRONMENT; NOTES.

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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics Développement social Economic history Economic indicators Economische indicatoren GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT Indicateurs économiques Indicateurs sociaux Lebensqualität macroeconomics Performances économiques POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions Produit intérieur brut Qualité de la vie quality of life Social indicators Sozialer Indikator Sozialprodukt Wirtschaftsindikator