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 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 societies -- considering, 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.

• We started tracking this book on May 11, 2014.
• This book was $9.99 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 59 times in the past 3,884 days.
• The current price of this book is $8.75 last checked 16 hours ago.
• This book is at its lowest price in the past 90 days.
• This lowest price this book has been offered at in the past year is $7.93.
• The lowest price to date was $4.15 last reached on November 29, 2015.
• This book has been $4.15 one time since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was $15.15 last reached on September 27, 2017.
• This book has been $15.15 one time since we started tracking it.

• Business & Money

• Text-to-Speech: Disabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 165 Pages
• File Size: 1,642 KB