Description: Further DetailsTitle: Mis-measuring Our LivesCondition: NewEAN: 9781595585196ISBN: 9781595585196Publisher: The New PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/26/2011Item Height: 190mmItem Length: 134mmItem Weight: 180gAuthor: Joseph StiglitzLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Why the GDP Doesn't Add UpISBN-10: 1595585192Description: In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prizewinning 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 activityis a reliable indicator of economic and social progress. The Commission was given the further task of laying out an agenda for developing better measures.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 GDP as a measurement of the well-being of societiesconsidering, for example, how GDP overlooks economic inequality (with the result that most people can be worse off even though average income is increasing); and does not factor environmental impacts into economic decisions.In place of GDP, Mismeasuring Our Lives introduces a bold new array of concepts, from sustainable measures of economic welfare, to measures of savings and wealth, to a green GDP.” At a time when policymakers worldwide are grappling with unprecedented global financial and environmental issues, here is an essential guide to measuring the things that matter.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Business & FinanceRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Mis-measuring Our Lives
Title: Mis-measuring Our Lives
EAN: 9781595585196
ISBN: 9781595585196
Release Date: 05/26/2011
Release Year: 2011
Subtitle: Why the GDP Doesn't Add Up
ISBN-10: 1595585192
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Book Title: Mismeasuring Our Lives : Why Gdp Doesn't Add Up
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New Press, T.H.E.
Topic: General, Economics / General, Research, Forecasting, Economics / Theory
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2010
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Philosophy, Social Science, Business & Economics
Item Weight: 6.5 Oz
Item Length: 7.5 in
Author: Amartya Sen, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Joseph E. Stiglitz
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
