Community Portal September 2009

G.D.P. Seen as Inadequate Measure of Economic Health, By David Jolly, New York Times 14.09.2009
PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy told the French national statistics agency Monday to take greater account of factors like quality of life and the environment when measuring the country’s economic health.

Mr. Sarkozy made the request after accepting a report from a panel of top economists he had charged with reviewing the adequacy of the current standard of fiscal well-being: gross domestic product.

The panel, chaired by two Nobel economists, Joseph E. Stiglitz of Columbia University and Amartya Sen of Harvard University, concluded that G.D.P. was insufficient and that measures of sustainability and human well-being should be included.

Emphasis on Growth Is Called Misguided (New York Times 22.09.2009)
Some Americans may reflexively reject the report and its recommendations, given its provenance: it was ordered up last year by President Nicolas Sarkozy of ...

An Obsession with Wealth (BBC News 15.09.2009)
The brains had been assembled by President Sarkozy of France last year in the hope that they might come up with a better way of measuring social progress ...

G.D.P. Seen as Inadequate Measure of Economic Health (New York Times 14.09.2009)
PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy told the French national statistics agency Monday to take greater account of factors like quality of life and the environment ...