Beyond GDP: The Need for New Measures of Progress

By Robert Costanza, M. Hart, Stephen M. Posner, J. Talberth. 2009

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1. Robert Costanza
2. Ida Kubiszewski
3. Tim Jackson
4. G. Alperovitz
5. J. Steinberger
6. J. Farley
7. J. Schor
8. H. Daly

Citations in the corpus

• The political economy of car dependence: A systems of provision approach (2020, background): “decision-making (on grounds of scientificity and neutrality), even when the decisions are taken mostly on other grounds [43,44,172,200].”
• Economic complexity, human capital and income inequality: a cross-country analysis (2019, methodology): “This line of research calls for better measures of economic development, rather than an aggregated indicator of income (Costanza et al., 2009; Stiglitz et al., 2010). Accordingly, economic development involves not only increases in economic size, but also brings about variations in technologies, hum”
• Inclusive Economic Sustainability: SDGs and Global Inequality (2020, background): “[17] define sustainable development as “development that improves the quality of human life while living within the carrying capacity of supporting ecosystems” (p.”
• 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].”
• A review of limitations of GDP and alternative indices to monitor human wellbeing and to manage eco-system functionality (2015, background): “Some proposals use the national accounts and GDP as a foundation and then subsequently add or subtract quantities in an effort to address part of the issues raised bymany researchers (Costanza et al., 2009; Stiglitz et al., 2010).”
• 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).”
• A Framework to measure the progress of societies (2011, background): “5 See the report of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, http://www.stiglitz-sen-fitoussi.fr 6 On the same topic see also Costanza et al., 2009. existing approaches lack public understanding and political support.”