Presentación del editor: "Mismeasuring Our Lives is the result of this major intellectual effort, one with pressing relevance for anyone engaged in assessing how and whether our economy is serving the needs of our society. The authors offer a sweeping assessment of the limits of…
"President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph E. Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi, to establish a commission of experts to study whether Gross Domestic Product (GDP)-the most widely used…