Mismeasuring our lives : why GDP doesn't add up : the report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress

By Joseph E. Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Nicolas Sarkozy. 2010

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Beyond GDP: Measuring and achieving global genuine progress (2013, background): “Standard economic indicators like gross domestic product (GDP) are useful for measuring just one limited aspect of the economy—marketed economic activity— but GDP has been mistakenly used as a broader measure of welfare (Costanza et al., 2009; Stiglitz et al., 2010).”
Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature (2013, background): “GPI is certainly not the perfect indicator of well-being or quality of life (QOL) and there are several other alternatives under active discussion [28,29].”
Twenty challenges to innovation studies (2015, background): “Work on such issues has been begun by a few (see e.g. Stiglitz et al., 2010), but IS scholars will need to build on these foundations if the shift to innovation for well-being is to be achieved.”
The Imperatives of Sustainable Development (2017, background): “Moreover, we claim that economic growth cannot be one of sustainable development’s key goals (Holden and Linnerud, 2007; Stiglitz et al., 2010; Daly, 2007; Griggs et al., 2013; Meadowcroft, 2012; Holden et al., 2014).”
“Friday off”: Reducing Working Hours in Europe (2013, background): “[48] report commissioned by the French Government suggests a broader look at well-being, to include material living standards (income and consumption) but also less easily quantifiable ―goods‖: personal health and education; personal attributes such as political voice, social connections and relatio”
A review of limitations of GDP and alternative indices to monitor human wellbeing and to manage eco-system functionality (2015, background): “In the book “Mismeasuring Our Lives,” Stiglitz et al. (2010) reviews the limits of GDP as a standard of the wellbeing of societies e taking into account, for example, how GDP ignores economic inequality and does not integrate environmental services into economic decisions.”
Understanding barriers to decision making in the UK energy-food-water nexus: The added value of interdisciplinary approaches (2016, background): “Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Environmental Science & Policy journal homepage: www.elsevier .com/ locat e/e nvsci”
Stochastic multi-attribute acceptability analysis (SMAA): an application to the ranking of Italian regions (2018, background): “The most widely used measures of economic performance are gross domestic product (GDP), or alternatively gross value added (GVA).1 However, there clearly remains longstanding general criticism about its validity as a measure of well-being dating back to 1934 (Kuznets, 1934) and more recently address”