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The measurement of economic performance and social progress revisited: Reflections and Overview

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  • Joseph Stiglitz

    (Columbia Business School)

  • Amartya Sen

    (Department of Economics, Harvard University)

  • Jean-Paul Fitoussi

    (Département d'économie (ECON))

Abstract

In February 2008, the President of the French Republic, Nicholas Sarkozy, unsatisfied with the present state of statistical information about the economy and the society, asked, Joseph Stiglitz (President of the Commission), Amartya Sen (Advisor) and Jean Paul Fitoussi (Coordinator) to create a Commission, subsequently called “The Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress” (CMEPSP). The Commission’s aim has been to identify the limits of GDP as an indicator of economic performance and social progress, including the problems with its measurement, to consider what additional information might be required for the production of more relevant indicators of social progress, to assess the feasibility of alternative measurement tools, and to discuss how to present the statistical information in an appropriate way (...).

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  • Joseph Stiglitz & Amartya Sen & Jean-Paul Fitoussi, 2009. "The measurement of economic performance and social progress revisited: Reflections and Overview," Sciences Po publications 2009-33, Sciences Po.
    • Handle: RePEc:spo:wpmain:info:hdl:2441/5l6uh8ogmqildh09h4687h53k
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