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On the Measurement of Social Progress and Wellbeing: Some Further Thoughts

In: The Global Macro Economy and Finance

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  • Jean-Paul Fitoussi

    (Sciences-po)

  • Joseph E. Stiglitz

    (Columbia University)

Abstract

There is not a single year where our measurement systems are not called into question, and as a consequence it will take more time than we would like to understand what is going on in the world economy.

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  • Jean-Paul Fitoussi & Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2012. "On the Measurement of Social Progress and Wellbeing: Some Further Thoughts," International Economic Association Series, in: Franklin Allen & Masahiko Aoki & Jean-Paul Fitoussi & Nobuhiro Kiyotaki & Roger Gordon & Joseph E. S (ed.), The Global Macro Economy and Finance, chapter 1, pages 13-24, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-137-03425-0_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137034250_2
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    1. Francesco Sarracino & Luca Fumarco, 2020. "Assessing the Non-financial Outcomes of Social Enterprises in Luxembourg," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 165(3), pages 425-451, September.
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    JEL classification:

    • E01 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth; Environmental Accounts
    • E30 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming

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