Mismeasuring Our Lives: Why GDP Doesn't Add Up

by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Amartya Sen, et al.

Book Overview

In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize-winning 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 activity-is a reliable indicator of economic and social progress. The Commission...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595585192
• ISBN13: 9781595585196
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.4"