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Mis-measuring Our Lives

Mis-measuring Our Lives

Why the GDP Doesn't Add Up

by Joseph Stiglitz
Paperback
Publication Date: 26/05/2011

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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 indicator of economic and social progress.
ISBN:
9781595585196
9781595585196
Category:
Economics
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
26-05-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
The New Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
176
Dimensions (mm):
190x134x15mm
Weight:
0.18kg
Joseph Stiglitz

Joseph Stiglitz was Chief Economist at the World Bank until January 2000. Before that he was Chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors. He is currently Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia University. He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001.

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