The measurement of economic performance and social progress revisited: Reflections and Overview
Year: 2009
Type: preprint
Abstract: In February 2008, the President of the French Republic, Nicholas Sarkozy, unsatisfied\nwith the present state of statistical information about the economy and the society, asked,\nJoseph Stiglitz (President of the Commission), Amartya Sen (Advisor) and Jean Paul\nFitoussi (Coordinator) to create a Commission, subsequently called “The Commission\non the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress” (CMEPSP). The\nCommission’s aim has been to identify the limits of GDP as an indicator of economic\nperformance and social progress, including the problems with its measurement, to\nconsider what additional information might be required for the production of more\nrelevant indicators of social progress, to assess the feasibility of alternative measurement\ntools, and to discuss how to present the statistical information in an appropriate way (...).
Institutions: Columbia University, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
Language: English
Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2241247490