ISBN:
9789264309173
,
9789264309166
,
9789264307292
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (144 p.)
,
21 x 28cm.
Parallel Title:
Parallele Sprachausgabe Poza PKB. Mierzmy To Co Ma Znaczenie Dla Rozwoju Społeczno Gospodarczego
Parallel Title:
Parallele Sprachausgabe Jenseits des BIP: Was bei der wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Entwicklung wirklich zählt
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Stiglitz, Joseph E., 1943 - Beyond GDP
DDC:
330
Keywords:
Sozialer Indikator
;
Lebensqualität
;
Soziale Lage
;
Bruttoinlandsprodukt
;
Wirtschaftsindikator
;
Messung
;
Environment
;
Governance
;
Social Issues/Migration/Health
;
Economics
;
Soziale Situation
;
Lebensqualität
;
Bruttoinlandsprodukt
;
Wirtschaftsindikator
;
Messung
Abstract:
Metrics matter for policy and policy matters for well-being. In this report, the co-chairs of the OECD-hosted High Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Jean-Paul Fitoussi and Martine Durand, show how over-reliance on GDP as the yardstick of economic performance misled policy makers who did not see the 2008 crisis coming. When the crisis did hit, concentrating on the wrong indicators meant that governments made inadequate policy choices, with severe and long-lasting consequences for many people. While GDP is the most well-known, and most powerful economic indicator, it can’t tell us everything we need to know about the health of countries and societies. In fact, it can’t even tell us everything we need to know about economic performance. We need to develop dashboards of indicators that reveal who is benefitting from growth, whether that growth is environmentally sustainable, how people feel about their lives, what factors contribute to an individual’s or a country’s success. This book looks at progress made over the past 10 years in collecting well-being data, and in using them to inform policies. An accompanying volume, For Good Measure: Advancing Research on Well-being Metrics Beyond GDP, presents the latest findings from leading economists and statisticians on selected issues within the broader agenda on defining and measuring well-being.
DOI:
10.1787/9789264307292-en
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