@book {67636,
	title = {Mismeasuring Our Lives: Why GDP Doesn{\textquoteright}t Add Up},
	year = {2010},
	month = {May 18, 2010},
	publisher = {The New Press},
	organization = {The New Press},
	abstract = {In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President
 Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize{\textendash}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){\textemdash}the most widely used measure 
of economic activity{\textemdash}is a reliable indicator of economic and social 
progress. The Commission was given the further task of laying out an 
agenda for developing better measures.Mismeasuring Our Lives
 is the result of this major intellectual effort, one with pressing 
relevance for anyone engaged in assessing how and whether our economy is
 serving the needs of our society. The authors offer a sweeping 
assessment of the limits of GDP as a measurement of the well-being of 
societies{\textemdash}considering, for example, how GDP overlooks economic 
inequality (with the result that most people can be worse off even 
though average income is increasing); and does not factor environmental 
impacts into economic decisions.In place of GDP, Mismeasuring Our Lives
 introduces a bold new array of concepts, from sustainable measures of 
economic welfare, to measures of savings and wealth, to a {\textquotedblleft}green GDP.{\textquotedblright} 
At a time when policymakers worldwide are grappling with unprecedented 
global financial and environmental issues, here is an essential guide to
 measuring the things that matter.},
	url = {http://www.thenewpress.com/},
	author = {Sen, Amartya and Fitoussi , Jean Paul and Joseph Stiglitz}
}
