Mis-measuring Our Lives: Why the GDP Doesn't Add Up

Joseph Stiglitz,Amartya Sen,Jean-Paul Fitoussi,Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (France)

Mis-measuring Our Lives: Why the GDP Doesn't Add Up
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The New Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
22 May 2010
Pages
176
ISBN
9781595585196

Mis-measuring Our Lives: Why the GDP Doesn’t Add Up

Joseph Stiglitz,Amartya Sen,Jean-Paul Fitoussi,Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (France)

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.

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