Thursday, October 13, 2011
[IWS] THE STIGLITZ-SEN-FITOUSSI REPORT
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress
[Known as The Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi report]
Professor Joseph E. STIGLITZ, Chair, Columbia University
Professor Amartya SEN, Chair Adviser, Harvard University
Professor Jean-Paul FITOUSSI, Coordinator of the Commission, IEP
http://www.stiglitz-sen-fitoussi.fr/documents/rapport_anglais.pdf
[full-text, 292 pages]
[excerpts]
Why has this report been written?
1) In February 2008, the President of the French Republic, Nicholas Sarkozy, unsatisfied
with the present state of statistical information about the economy and the society, asked,
Joseph Stiglitz (President of the Commission), Amartya Sen (Advisor) and Jean Paul
Fitoussi (Coordinator) to create a Commission, subsequently called “The Commission on
the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress” (CMEPSP). The
Commission’s aim has been to identify the limits of GDP as an indicator of economic
performance and social progress, including the problems with its measurement; to
consider what additional information might be required for the production of more
relevant indicators of social progress; to assess the feasibility of alternative measurement
tools, and to discuss how to present the statistical information in an appropriate way.
CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
I. SHORT NARRATIVE ON THE CONTENT OF THE REPORT
Chapter 1: Classical GDP Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 2: Quality of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Chapter 3: Sustainable Development and Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
II. SUBSTANTIAL ARGUMENTS PRESENTED IN THE REPORT
Chapter 1: Classical GDP Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Chapter 2: Quality of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Chapter 3: Sustainable Development and Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
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