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Today''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

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A bold agenda for a better way to assess societal well-being, by three of the world''s leading economists and statisticians If we want to put people first, we have to know what matters to them, what improves their well-being, and how we can supply more of whatever that is.Joseph E. Stiglitz In 2009, a group of economists led by Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz, French economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi, and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen issued a report challenging gross domestic product (GDP) as a measure of progress and well-being. Published as Mismeasuring Our Lives by The New Press, the book sparked a global conversation about GDP and a major movement among scholars, policy makers, and activists to change the way we measure our economies.Now, in Measuring What Counts, Stiglitz, Fitoussi, and Martine Durandsummarizing the deliberations of a panel of experts on the measurement of economic perfor

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