For Good Measure
Title | For Good Measure PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph E. Stiglitz |
Publisher | The New Press |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2019-11-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1620975726 |
Today's leading economists weigh in with a new "dashboard" of metrics for measuring our economic and social health "What we measure affects what we do. If we focus only on material well-being—on, say, the production of goods, rather than on health, education, and the environment—we become distorted in the same way that these measures are distorted." —Joseph E. Stiglitz A consensus has emerged among key experts that our conventional economic measures are out of sync with how most people live their lives. GDP, they argue, is a poor and outmoded measure of our well-being. The global movement to move beyond GDP has attracted some of the world's leading economists, statisticians, and social thinkers who have worked collectively to articulate new approaches to measuring economic well-being and social progress. In the decade since the 2008 economic crisis, these experts have come together to determine what indicators can actually tell us about people's lives. In the first book of its kind, leading economists from around the world, including Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, Elizabeth Beasely, Jacob Hacker, François Bourguignon, Nora Lustig, Alan B. Krueger, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, describe a range of fascinating metrics—from economic insecurity and environmental sustainability to inequality of opportunity and levels of trust and resilience—that can be used to supplement the simplistic measure of gross domestic product, providing a far more nuanced and accurate account of societal health and well-being. This groundbreaking volume is sure to provide a major source of ideas and inspiration for one of the most important intellectual movements of our time.
For Good Measure
Title | For Good Measure PDF eBook |
Author | OECD |
Publisher | Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Quality of life |
ISBN | 9789264307261 |
The 2009 Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress ("Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi" Commission) concluded that we should move away from over-reliance on GDP when assessing a country's health, towards a broader dashboard of indicators that would reflect concerns such as the distribution of well-being and sustainability in all of its dimensions. This book includes contributions from members of the OECD-hosted High Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, the successor of the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission, and their co-authors on the latest research in this field. These contributions look at key issues raised by the 2009 Commission that deserved more attention, such as how to better include the environment and sustainability in our measurement system, and how to improve the measurement of different types of inequalities, of economic insecurity, of subjective well-being and of trust. A companion volume Beyond GDP: Measuring What Counts for Economic and Social Performance presents an overview by the co-chairs of the High Level Expert Group, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Jean-Paul Fitoussi and Martine Durand of the progress accomplished since the 2009 report, of the work conducted by the Group over the past five years, and of what still needs to be done.
For Good Measure Advancing Research on Well-being Metrics Beyond GDP
Title | For Good Measure Advancing Research on Well-being Metrics Beyond GDP PDF eBook |
Author | OECD |
Publisher | OECD Publishing |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2018-11-27 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9264307273 |
The 2009 Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (“Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi” Commission) concluded that we should move away from over-reliance on GDP when assessing a country’s health, towards a broader dashboard of indicators...
For Good Measure
Title | For Good Measure PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph E. Stiglitz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781620975718 |
In the first book of its kind, leading economists from around the world, including Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, Elizabeth Beasely, Jacob Hacker, Francois Bourguignon, Nora Lustig, Alan B. Krueger, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, describe a range of fascinating metrics - from economic insecurity and environmental sustainability to inequality of opportunity and levels of trust and resilience - that can be used to supplement the simplistic measure of gross domestic product, providing a far more nuanced and accurate account of societal health and well-being.
The Quality of Growth in Africa
Title | The Quality of Growth in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Akbar Noman |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 445 |
Release | 2019-08-20 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0231550987 |
In recent years, concerns about the outcomes and nature of economic growth have given way to a new emphasis on its quality. This volume brings together prominent international contributors to consider a range of interrelated questions concerning the quality of growth in Africa, with a primary focus on sub-Saharan countries. Contributors discuss the measurement of growth, the transformations necessary to sustain it, and issues around equity and well-being. They consider topics such as the distribution of income gains from growth; the extent to which economic growth has resulted in improvements in employment, poverty, and security; structural transformations of the economy and diversification of the sources of growth; environmental sustainability; and management of urbanization. Offering both diagnoses and prescriptions, The Quality of Growth in Africa helps envision a future that goes beyond increasing GDP to ensuring that growth translates into advancements in well-being. Although the book focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, much of the contributors’ incisive analysis has implications for countries outside the region.
Replacing GDP by 2030
Title | Replacing GDP by 2030 PDF eBook |
Author | Rutger Hoekstra |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 371 |
Release | 2019-05-30 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108497330 |
Proposes an new strategy for the beyond-GDP community which aims to replace the economic paradigm centred on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2030.
Beyond GDP
Title | Beyond GDP PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789264309173 |