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Articles about the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress

This Commission was set up by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and held a meeting in Paris on the 14th of September 2009. The report is online at: www.stiglitz-sen-fitoussi.fr 

• Economists start to consider that money can't buy happiness (The Guardian.co.uk 10.01.2010)

• A Better Measure than GDP (Time 2.11.2009)

• Is It a Day to Be Happy? Check the Index (New York Times 11.10.2009)

• More to life than GDP (MercatorNet 8.10.2009)

• Answering Your Questions on the Economy (New York Times 6.10.2009)

• A better measure of society's wellbeing (Brisbane Times 3.10.2009)

• Forget GDP, let's initiate a social divisiveness index instead (The Nation 24.09.2009)

• Emphasis on Growth Is Called Misguided (The New York Times 23.09.2009)

• G20: Stiglitz and Sen Come In Too Late (IPS Inter Press Service News Agency 23.09.2009)
• GDP: Not All It's Cracked Up to Be? (The Huffington Post 23.09.2009)
• Gross domestic fudging (Asian Times Online 23.09.2009)
• It's The Debt! (iStockAnalyst.com 23.09.2009)
• Moving beyond GDP as well-being's metric (The Cape Times 23.09.2009)
• Q&A: 'Stiglitz-Sen Moving in the Right Direction, but Slowly' (IPS Inter Press Service News Agency 23.09.2009)
• Sarkozy Is Right: GDP Is A Crappy Way Of Measuring The Economy (Business Insider 23.09.2009)
• Stiglitz, Sen, and the End of Recession (Business Week 23.09.2009)
• Too Caught up in GDP (LA Biz Observed 23.09.2009)

• Chavez to change GDP measuring to Stiglitz report recommendations (Vheadline.com 22.09.2009)
• Economists Search for New Definition of Well-Being (SPIEGEL Online 22.09.2009)
• Emphasis on Growth Is Called Misguided (New York Times 22.09.2009)
• Is Economic Growth Really Essential? (Business Week 22.09.2009)
• Sarkozy launches crusade against obsession with growth (24dash.com 22.09.2009)

• GDP Fetishism (International Business Times 21.09.2009)
• Valuing Unpaid Work Matters, Especially for the Poor (The New York Times 21.09.2009)

• Forget GDP: happiness is the secret of success (The Guardian 20.09.2009)
• GDP missing the happiness factor (The Malaysian Insider 20.09.2009)
• Is Sarkozy's economic approach a tall order? Views for and against (The Guardian 20.09.2009)
• John Lichfield: Sarkozy's happiness index is worth taking seriously (The Indipendent 20.09.2009)
• When it comes to life, love and true happiness, Sarkozy is leading the way (The Guardian 20.09.2009)

• GDP not a good measure for gauging nations' economic health (The Nation 19.09.2009)
• New push to ditch GDP as Kenya prosperity measure (Daily Nation 19.09.2009)

• Beyond GDP: The pursuit of economic happiness (CBC  Canada 18.09.2009)
• GDP: Out, Joie de Vivre: In (CBS News.com 18.09.2009)
• Happiness is no metric for a country's success (Washington Examiner 18.09.2009)
• Measuring Economic Progress: Is GDP the Bottom Line?   (Woman Up Blog 18.09.2009)
• Obama's America: What is Economic Growth For? (Huffington Post 18.09.2009) 

   

• A measure of importance for Europe (EuropeanVoice.com 17.09.2009)

• Bhutan for top GNH and no mobiles (The Financial Times 17.09.2009)
• End GDP Fetishism! (The Motley Fool 17.09.2009)
• Forget GDP, aim for happiness metric (SFGate 17.09.2009)
• French to tickle economic data with joie de vivre (New York Post 17.09.2009)
• Happiness and Misery (Globe and Mail 17.09.2009)
• Measuring what matters (The Economist 17.09.2009)
• Slap Happy (The National 17.09.2009)
• Why Sarkozy is happy to be a nuisance to les Anglo-Saxons  (Times Online 17.09.2009)
• Why it's our Gross National Happiness that counts (Indipendent.ie 17.09.2009)

• At last Sarkozy embraces the French way of life (London Evening Standard 16.09.2009)
• Bhutan on the Seine  (National Post 16.09.2009)
• Could happiness index be the new GDP? (Expatriate Healthcare 16.09.2009)
• Measuring Measurements: Rising GPF in the Great Recession  (The Huffington Post 16.09.2009)
• National Post editorial board: The quantification of happiness  (National Post 16.09.2009)
• Never mind the debt, it's joie de vivre that counts  (Sydney Morning Herald 16.09.2009)
• Should We Measure Happiness instead of GDP?  (GOOD Magazine Blog 16.09.2009)
• Stiglitz, Sarkozy push for new measures of country performance  (True Slant 16.09.2009)
• The Political Element in Empirical Data?  (Wall Street Pit Blog 16.09.2009)

• A Nobelist Joins Those Pursuing Well-Being Over Growth (The New York Times 15.09.2009)
• An obsession with wealth  (BBC News 15.09.2009)
• Are We Happier in France? An Expat Explains (Huffington Post 15.09.2009)
• Better Measures (The New Yorker 15.09.2009)
• Chatter: What we're hearing (The globalpost.com 15.09.2009)
• Economies are more than GDP, experts say (International Herald Tribune 15.09.2009)
• Economists just want you to be happy (San Francisco Chronicle 15.09.2009)
• Gross National Unhappiness (The NewStatesman 15.09.2009)
• Happiness - the new currency in France  (Daily Telegraph 15.09.2009)
• How to measure Gross National Happiness (The Toronto Star 15.09.2009)
• In the French Papers (France24 15.09.2009)
• It Is Time To End GDP Fetishism (Ya Libnan 15.09.2009)
• Lay emphasis on well-being in growth measurements: economists (The Hindu 15.09.2009)
• Nicolas im Glück (Sueddeutsche.de - 15.09.2009 - German version)
• Out Now: Sarkozy, Stiglitz & Sen Well-being report  (International Political Economy zone 15.09.2009)
• Sarkozy and Stiglitz: A New Way to Grow (Newsweek 15.09.2009)
• Sarkozy calls for a new international prosperity barometer (Deutsche Welle 15.09.2009)
• Sarkozy strives for measure of happiness (The Financial Times 15.09.2009)
• Searching for a Better Measure of Wealth Than GDP (Zikkir Science & Technology News 15.09.2009)

• Call to overhaul economic data  (The Financial Times 14.09.2009)
• France's Sarkozy calls for 'revolution' in measuring economic growth to account for well-being (CFTKTV 14.09.2009)
• France's Sarkozy: Crisis Forces Us To Go Beyond GDP (The Wall Street Journal 14.09.2009)
• France pushes broader measure of economic health (Forbes 14.09.2009)
• GDP branded a poor gauge of progress (The Financial Times 14.09.2009)
• G.D.P. Seen as Inadequate Measure of Economic Health (The New York Times 14.09.2009)
• Gross domestic embellishments  (The Financial Times 14.09.2009)
• Let's ditch the GDP (CNN 14.09.2009)
• "Let's measure well-being, not just growth": France (France24 14.09.2009)
• Monday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International Stories (FinFacts Ireland 14.09.2009)
• Nicolas Sarkozy wants 'well-being' measure to replace GDP (The Telegraph 14.09.2009)
• OECD welcomes experts call on need for new measures of social progress (The Gov Monitor 14.09.2009)
• Sarko proposes the joie de vivre index (The Indipendent UK 14.09.2009)
• Sarkozy Adds to Calls for GDP Alternative (The Wall Street Journal 14.09.2009)
• Sarkozy attacks focus on economic growth (The Guardian 14.09.2009)
• Stiglitz report calls for measure of "well-being" alongside growth (France24 14.09.2009)

• Lies, damned lies and GDP statistics [by Joseph Stiglitz] (TheStar.com 13.09.2009)
• This is the greatest good (The Guardian 13.09.2009)
• The great GDP swindle (The Guardian 13.09.2009)
• Towards a better measure of well-being [by Joseph Stiglitz] (The Financial Times.com 13.09.2009)

Measuring Progress related articles

• Is GDP An Obsolete Measure of Progress? (Föhrenbergkreis 31.01.2009)
• Productivity up, happiness down (The Sydney Morning Herald 21.01.2010) 
• Op-Ed Columnist: The Happiest People (The New York Times 6.01.2010)
• GDP Is Misleading Measure of Wealth, Says Top Economist (ScienceDaily 4.01.2010)
• The economics of happiness (The Washington Post 3.01.2010)
• Survey finds little faith in statistics - International story  - UK story (Financial Times 30.12.2009)
• "Das ungezähmte Monster - Die Reform der Weltfinanzordnung verlangt Beteiligung der Gewerkschaften"  (Bundespräsident 5.11.2009 - German version)
• Misleading Indicator (The Atlantic 1.11. 2009)
• Progress over product (JoongAng Daily 31.10.2009)
• Joe Stiglitz addresses ‘the movement’ on well-being v GDP (Oxfam Blog 29.10.2009)
• How to measure happiness (JoongAng Daily 29.10.2009)
• 'Global Economy Still in Slump' (The Korea Times 28.10.2009)
• OECD World Forum to talk quality, not quantity (Korea Herald 21.10.2009)
• OECD World Forum comes to Busan in Oct. (Korea Herald 15.10.2009)
• Economy: Our dangerous addiction to GDP (Canadian Business 12.10.2009)
• GLOBAL: OECD world forum in Busan (University World News 11.10.2009)
• [Viewpoint] Does GDP alone mean happiness? (JoongAng Daily 6.10.2009)
• La medición del progreso (América economia 5.10.2009 - Spanish version)
• Den richtigen Weg gehen (Welt 25.09.2009 - German version)
• Economic growth figures in Nigeria mean nothing! (Business Day 21.09.2009)
• Greed is not good for the UK economy (The GovMonitor 20.09.2009)
• Happiness index (Irish Time 16.09.2009)
• The paper clip, 15 September (European Voice 15.09.2009)
• Tuesday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International Stories (FinFacts Ireland 15.09.2009)
• OCDE quiere liderar la armonización de nuevos indicadores del progreso social (Terra 14.09.2009 - Spanish version)
• Stiglitz says banking system is in worse shape (Financial Post 14.09.2009)
• Environment to Round off GDP as Measure of Europe’s Success (Circle of Bue Waternews 12.09.2009)
• Economía Moral (La Jornada 11.09.2009 - Spanish version)
• La felicità in tempi di crisi: ricetta danese e riflessione coreana (by Donato Speroni 11.09.2009 - Italian version)
• At Long Last, Environmental Supplement to GDP Takes Shape (The New York Times 09.09.2009)
• How are we doing, really? (Penki News 09.09.2009)
• The numbers game: making sense of GDP (The Age 09.09.2009)
• Brussels wants greener, happier economic yardstick than GDP (EUoberserver.com 08.09.2009)
• Environment: Measuring progress in a changing world (EUROPA 08.09.2009)
• Questions and Answers on Gross Domestic Product and beyond (EUROPA 08.09.2009)
• What alternative is there to GDP? (EUX.TV-video 08.09.2009)
• Välfärden ska öka – inte bruttonationalprodukten [by Anders Wijkman] (Dagens Nyheter 23.08.2009 - Swedish version)
• G.D.P. R.I.P. (New York Times 9.08.2009)
• Der Kampf gegen das BIP - The fight against GDP  (Financial Times Deutschland 15.07.2009 - German version)
• An exciting stats website? Believe it (BBC News 2.07.2009)
• How the money is spent by country - €114bn. The EU spends more than 100 billion euros each year on projects ranging from farming to foreign aid, read more on BBC
• The Odds of That ( The New York Times 02.03.2009)
• Il PIl crolla. E i governi lo riformano (La Repubblica 19.02.2009 - Italian version)
• Progress, what progress? (OECD Observer 30.01.2009)
• A more humane way to measure progress (The Financial Times 31.01.2009)
• A measure remodelled (The Financial Times 29.01.2009)
• De-fetishising GDP (The Financial Times 29.01.2009)
• Presentation at the GuideStar International Assembly 2008. Enrico Giovannini explains the importance of going beyond GDP when measuring the progress of society (29.01.2009)
• A better way to track economy's health (The Star 26.01.2009)
• Levels of belonging 'lowest in UK' (Evening Standard 24.01.2009)
• Spending Ourselves Healthy (CBC News 22.01.2009)
• "Measuring the progress of societies: A key issue for policy making and democratic governance". Enrico Giovannini's presentation at the NatStat Conference 2008. (Melbourne 19-21.11.2008)
• Why do we need economic growth? (BBC News 16.10.2008)
• War Spending Weighs Down our Genuine Progress (The Huffington Post 10.10.2008)
• Need to look beyond GDP  (The Times of India article 3.10.2008)
• Suffer the little children (by Fiona Stanley 2.10.2008)
• French use happiness as economic measure (Usa to Day - 1.10.2008)
• H.E. Mr. Jigmi Yoezer Thinley, Prime Minister of Bhutan said the international community was facing a host of serious challenges... (United Nations - 26.09.2008)
• Putting numbers on happiness - new efforts to measure well-being. (From Poverty to Power by Ducan Green - 10.09.2008)
• Hey, Big Number, Make Room for the Rest of Us - By Louis Uchitelle. (New York Times - 30.8.2008)
• Maybe Money Does Buy Happiness After All  (New York Times- 16.04.2008)
• After 30 years of unprecedented economic growth, the British are richer, healthier - but no happier than in 1973. (BBC - 08.04.2008)
• France seeks new growth measure  (BBC article 08.01.2008)

Blogs Network area

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What the Economists are saying

Can we trust official statistics? Do they give us a true picture of how societies are changing? Review an  Online debate which took place with Enrico Giovannini, the Former Chief Statistician, OECD, in July 2007.

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