Mismeasuring Our Lives: Why GDP Doesn't Add Up - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Joseph E. Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Jean-Paul FitoussiPublish date:2010-05-18Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:New PressISBN-13:9781595585196ISBN-10:1595585192UPC:9781595585196Book Category:Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:EconomicsBook Topic:Macroeconomics, TheorySize:7.40 x 5.20 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCVE281WXF
Mismeasuring Our Lives: Why GDP Doesn't Add Up
In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean Paul Fitoussi, to establish a commission of leading economists to study whether Gross Domestic Product (GDP)-the most widely used measure of economic activity-is a reliable...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New PressISBN-13:9781595585196ISBN-10:1595585192UPC:9781595585196Book Category:Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:EconomicsBook Topic:Macroeconomics, TheorySize:7.40 x 5.20 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCVE281WXF
Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics, is university professor at Columbia University and chief economist at the Roosevelt Institute. He is the author of The Stiglitz Report, co-author of Measuring What Counts, and a co-editor of For Good Measure. He lives in New York City. Amartya Sen is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and a professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard...
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