For Good Measure
Advancing Research on Well-being Metrics Beyond GDP
The 2009 Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress
(“Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi” Commission) concluded that we should move away from over-reliance
on GDP when assessing a country’s health, towards a broader dashboard of indicators
that would reflect concerns such as the distribution of well-being and sustainability
in all of its dimensions. This book includes contributions from members of the OECD-hosted
High Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress,
the successor of the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission, and their co-authors on the
latest research in this field. These contributions look at key issues raised by the
2009 Commission that deserved more attention, such as how to better include the environment
and sustainability in our measurement system, and how to improve the measurement of
different types of inequalities, of economic insecurity, of subjective well-being
and of trust.
A companion volume Beyond GDP: Measuring What Counts for Economic and Social Performance
presents an overview by the co-chairs of the High Level Expert Group, Joseph E. Stiglitz,
Jean-Paul Fitoussi and Martine Durand of the progress accomplished since the 2009
report, of the work conducted by the Group over the past five years, and of what still
needs to be done.
Published on November 27, 2018