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The little big number : how GDP came to rule the world and what to do about it
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ISBN: 9780691166520 0691166528 Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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"In one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. It is our universal yardstick of progress. As The Little Big Number demonstrates, this spells trouble. While economies and cultures measure their performance by it, GDP ignores central facts such as quality, costs, or purpose. It only measures output: more cars, more accidents; more lawyers, more trials; more extraction, more pollution--all count as success. Sustainability and quality of life are overlooked. Losses don't count. GDP promotes a form of stupid growth and ignores real development.How and why did we get to this point? Dirk Philipsen uncovers a submerged history dating back to the 1600s, climaxing with the Great Depression and World War II, when the first version of GDP arrived at the forefront of politics. Transcending ideologies and national differences, GDP was subsequently transformed from a narrow metric to the purpose of economic activity. Today, increasing GDP is the highest goal of politics. In accessible and compelling prose, Philipsen shows how it affects all of us. But the world can no longer afford GDP rule. A finite planet cannot sustain blind and indefinite expansion. If we consider future generations equal to our own, replacing the GDP regime is the ethical imperative of our times. More is not better. As Philipsen demonstrates, the history of GDP reveals unique opportunities to fashion smarter goals and measures. The Little Big Number explores a possible roadmap for a future that advances quality of life rather than indiscriminate growth. "--


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For good measure
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ISBN: 9781620975718 9781620975725 1620975726 1620975718 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York

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"A consensus has emerged among key experts that our conventional economic measures are out of sync with how most people experience their lives. GDP, they argue, is a poor and outmoded measure of our well-being. The global movement to advance beyond GDP has attracted some of the world's leading economists, statisticians, and social thinkers who have worked collectively to articulate new approaches to measuring economic well-being and social progress. In the decade since the 2008 economic crisis, these experts have come together to create a new "dashboard" of indicators of what actually makes for better lives. In the first book of its kind, leading economists from around the world-including Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, Jacob Hacker, François Bourguignon, Alan Krueger, and Joseph E. Stiglitz-describe a range of fascinating metrics-from economic insecurity and environmental sustainability to inequality of opportunity and levels of trust and resilience-that can at least supplement the simplistic measure of gross domestic product, providing a far more nuanced and accurate account of societal health and well-being. This groundbreaking volume is sure to provide a major source of ideas and inspiration for one of the most important intellectual movements of our time"--


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Welfare measurement, sustainability and green national accounting : a growth theoretical approach.
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ISBN: 1858984858 Year: 1997 Publisher: Cheltenham Edward Elgar

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Microeconomics --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- AA / International- internationaal --- 339.0 --- 313 --- 351.2 --- 355 --- 339.10 --- 307.8 --- Algemeenheden. Nationale rekeningen. --- Levenswijze en levensstandaard. Levensminimum. sociale indicatoren (Studiën). --- Openbare gezondheid. Milieubescherming. Milieuvervuiling. --- Milieu --- Raming van het goederenbezit en van het inkomen: algemeenheden. --- Statistiek in verband met de levenskwaliteit. --- Economic development --- Environmental auditing --- Social accounting --- Welfare economics --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Social policy --- Corporate social accounting --- Social auditing --- Socio-economic accounting --- Socioeconomic accounting --- Accounting --- National income --- Quality of life --- Social indicators --- Auditing, Environmental --- Environmental accounting --- Environmental compliance auditing --- Green accounting --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental impact analysis --- Environmental policy --- Environmental reporting --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Environmental aspects&delete& --- Econometric models --- Statistiek in verband met de levenskwaliteit --- Levenswijze en levensstandaard. Levensminimum. sociale indicatoren (Studiën) --- Algemeenheden. Nationale rekeningen --- Raming van het goederenbezit en van het inkomen: algemeenheden --- Openbare gezondheid. Milieubescherming. Milieuvervuiling --- Environmental aspects

Income, Wealth, and the Maximum Principle
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ISBN: 0674010442 0674025768 0674045076 9780674045071 9780674010444 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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A compact exposition of optimal control theory and applications, which presents an elementary yet rigorous proof of the maximum principle and a way of applying the principle that should enable students to solve any one-dimensional problem routinely.

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