
Measuring What Counts
The Global Movement for Well-Being
The New Press
Published on 16. January 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-62097-569-5 (ISBN)
Description
In 2009, a group of economists issued a report challenging gross domestic product (GDP) as a measure of progress and well-being. Now, in Measuring What Counts they - propose a new, 'beyond GDP' agenda. 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.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for Measuring What Counts:"Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz's (former chief economist of the World Bank) new book: Measuring What Counts: The Global Movement for Well-Being (The New Press, 2019) tackles the issue by exposing its paramount importance in judging how society gauges prosperity or alternatively the failure of prosperity."
-CityWatch LA
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-62097-569-5 (9781620975695)
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Persons
Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics, is university professor at Columbia University and chief economist at the Roosevelt Institute. He is the author of The Stiglitz Report and a co-author of Mismeasuring Our Lives. He lives in New York City. 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 is a co-author of Mismeasuring Our Lives and a co-editor of For Good Measure. He lives in Paris. Martine Durand is the chief statistician and director of statistics of the OECD. She is a co-editor of For Good Measure. She lives in Paris.