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For Good Measure: An Agenda for Moving Beyond GDP
Hardback
Main Details
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For Good Measure: An Agenda for Moving Beyond GDP
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Joseph E. Stiglitz
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By (author) Jean-Paul Fitoussi
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By (author) Martine Durand
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Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:448 | Dimensions(mm): Height 236,Width 158 |
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Category/Genre | Political economy |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781620975718
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Classifications | Dewey:306 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
The New Press
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Imprint |
The New Press
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Publication Date |
30 January 2020 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
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 dist
Author Biography
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-author of Measuring What Counts. She lives in Paris.
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