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Book SynopsisToday''s leading economists weigh in with a new dashboard of metrics for measuring our economic and social health
What we measure affects what we do. If we focus only on material well-beingon, say, the production of goods, rather than on health, education, and the environmentwe become distorted in the same way that these measures are distorted.
Joseph E. Stiglitz
A consensus has emerged among key experts that our conventional economic measures are out of sync with how most people live their lives. GDP, they argue, is a poor and outmoded measure of our well-being.
The global movement to move beyond GDP has attracted some of the world''s leading economists, statisticians, and social thinkers who have worked collectively to articulate new approaches to measuring economic well-being and social progress. In the decade since the 2008 economic crisis, these experts have come together to determine what indicators can actually tell
