New Press Measuring what counts: the global movement for well-being, paperback/joseph e. stiglitz

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A bold agenda for a better way to assess societal well-being, by three of the world's leading economists and statisticians If we want to put people first, we have to know what matters to them, what improves their well-being, and how we can supply more of whatever that is.

--Joseph E.

Stiglitz In 2009, a group of economists led by Nobel laureate Joseph E.

Stiglitz, French economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi, and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen issued a report challenging gross domestic product (GDP) as a measure of progress and well-being.

Published as Mismeasuring Our Lives by The New Press, the book sparked a global conversation about GDP and a major movement among scholars, policy makers, and activists to change the way we measure our economies.

Now, in Measuring What Counts, Stiglitz, Fitoussi, and Martine Durand--summarizing the deliberations of a panel of experts on the measurement of economic performance and social progress hosted at the OECD, the international organization incorporating the most economically advanced countries--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.

Essential reading for our time, it also serves as a guide for policy makers and others on how to use these new tools to fundamentally change the way we measure our lives--and to plot a radically new path forward.

About the Author 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 (Sciences Po),.