Beyond GDP Concepts

Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals

by Tyler Cowen · 15 Oct 2018 · 140pp · 42,194 words

of Positive Affect in a Random-Assignment Experiment.” American Economic Review 101, no. 7 (December): 3109–3129. Jones, Charles I., and Peter J. Klenow. 2016. “Beyond GDP?: Welfare Across Countries and Time.” American Economic Review 106, no. 9: 2426–2457. Jones-Lee, M.W., ed. 1982. The Value of Life and Safety

GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History

by Diane Coyle · 23 Feb 2014 · 159pp · 45,073 words

profoundly as growth has continued over the decades. “GDP mainly measures market production,” according to the high-profile Sen-Stiglitz-Fitoussi commission looking at measures “Beyond GDP.” This gets it backward: GDP defines market production, which is then measured by the official statisticians. But there is no clear definition of “the economy

Stuffocation

by James Wallman · 6 Dec 2013 · 296pp · 82,501 words

Growth (London: Earthscan, 2009) and Joseph E Stiglitz, Amartya Sen and Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Mismeasuring Our Lives (New York: New Press, 2010). Also, Jules Evans, “Beyond GDP: Towards a Better Measurement of National Wellbeing in France and the UK”, Franco-British Council report, 2 February 2011. Jon Gertner, “The Rise and Fall

The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations

by David Pilling · 30 Jan 2018 · 264pp · 76,643 words

came out of work begun by Herman Daly, an ecological economist, is one of the most enduring of an alphabet soup of attempts to go beyond GDP. One way of thinking about these measurements is as net domestic product. Remember the G in gross domestic product stands for “gross,” with little account

Termites of the State: Why Complexity Leads to Inequality

by Vito Tanzi · 28 Dec 2017

, 2015, Desigualdad, concentracion del ingreso y tributacion sibre las altas rentas en America Latina (Santiago, Chile: Cepal). Jones, Charles I. and Peter J. Klenow, 2016, “Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time,” The American Economic Review 106 (9) (September), pp. 2426–2457. The Journal of Political Perspective, Summer 2013. Kahneman, Daniel, 1994

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee · 20 Jan 2014 · 339pp · 88,732 words

ABOUT EVERYTHING Chapter 5 INNOVATION: DECLINING OR RECOMBINING? Chapter 6 ARTIFICIAL AND HUMAN INTELLIGENCE IN THE SECOND MACHINE AGE Chapter 7 COMPUTING BOUNTY Chapter 8 BEYOND GDP Chapter 9 THE SPREAD Chapter 10 THE BIGGEST WINNERS: STARS AND SUPERSTARS Chapter 11 IMPLICATIONS OF THE BOUNTY AND THE SPREAD Chapter 12 LEARNING TO

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2010, 2.3 percent between 1991 and 2000, 1.5 percent between 1981 and 1990, and 1.7 percent between 1971 and 1980. Chapter 8 BEYOND GDP 1. Joel Waldfogel, “Copyright Protection, Technological Change, and the Quality of New Products: Evidence from Recorded Music Since Napster,” Working Paper (National Bureau of Economic

The Globalization of Inequality

by François Bourguignon · 1 Aug 2012 · 221pp · 55,901 words

is a very imperfect indicator of the economic well-being of a nation’s citizens. The Sen- Stiglitz-Fitoussi5 report on the need to go “beyond GDP” to measure social welfare was enough to convince anyone who might have remained undecided. Unfortunately, we are still some way from having the statistics we

The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters

by Diane Coyle · 21 Feb 2011 · 523pp · 111,615 words

need for national statistical offices, academics, and public and private bodies to work with civil society to identify a “new paradigm” of social progress going beyond GDP. Included in these indicators are health, education, and the environment, as well as employment, productivity, and purchasing power. The third world forum was held in

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–17, and Coyle (2009), 103–9. 20 Nordhaus (2002). 21 Sen, Stiglitz, and Fitoussi (2009). 22 OECD World Forum, http://www.oecworldforum2009.org/, http://www.beyond-gdp.eu/download/bgdp-summary-notes.pdf. 23http://www.oecd.org/document/53/0,3343,en_40033426_40037349_43963509_1_1_1_1,00.html. Accessed

Growth: A Reckoning

by Daniel Susskind · 16 Apr 2024 · 358pp · 109,930 words

the latter examples, as one survey of the measure notes, ‘when rising crime, pollution, catastrophes, or health hazards trigger defensive or repair expenditures’, Marc Fleurbaey, ‘Beyond GDP: The Quest for a Measure of Social Welfare’, Journal of Economic Literature, 47:4 (2009), 1029–75. 35 Daniel Indiviglio, ‘Really, the Oil Spill Isn

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. 36 Ron Bousso, ‘BP Deepwater Horizon Costs Balloon to $65 Billion’, Reuters, 16 January 2018: www.reuters.com/article/us-bp-deepwaterhorizon-idUSKBN1F50NL. 37 Fleurbaey, ‘Beyond GDP’ ‘convivial reciprocity’ is replaced by ‘anonymous market relations’. 38 Nicholas Oulton, ‘Hooray for GDP!’, Centre for Economic Performance Occasional Paper, 30 August 2012. 39 William

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Working Paper Series WP2020–3, December 2020. 47 For pressure, see the discussion of the SNA review here: Paul Allin, Diane Coyle and Tim Jackson, ‘Beyond GDP: Changing How We Measure Progress is Key to Tackling a World in Crisis – Three Leading Experts’, The Conversation, 18 August 2022. For resistance, see page

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-prefer-to-be-boring-118819.html. 52 Coyle, GDP makes a similar point on the arbitrary nature of these weights. Charles Jones and Peter Klenow, ‘Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time’, American Economic Review, 106:9 (2016), 2426–57, assign the weights according to actual preferences (though we might ask if

Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be

by Diane Coyle · 11 Oct 2021 · 305pp · 75,697 words

and campaigning, including in official bodies such as the European Commission and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), in measures that go ‘beyond GDP’, or in other words beyond market outcomes. Yet the technocratic instinct and the legacy of free market politics since the 1980s leave much economic policy

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a dashboard; the report did not specific its components, but the Commission ignited significant work in the statistics and policy community to think about life ‘Beyond GDP’. A number of countries now have measurement and reporting of well-being, environmental accounts, or broader well-being frameworks. However, these vary substantially, and there

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/3/chapter/2/. Epstein, Joshua M., 2007, Generative Social Science Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. European Commission, Beyond GDP, http://ec.europa.eu/environment/beyond_gdp/index_en.html. Evans, David S., and Richard Schmalensee, 2016a, Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms, Boston, MA: Harvard Business School