… by buying my new book, [amazon_link id=”0691156794″ target=”_blank” ]GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History[/amazon_link]. The ‘official’ publication date is a couple of weeks away still, but Amazon has decided to start shipping. Order now and you can get it … Continue reading
Normally, I’m a sunny-natured optimist but every so often I get grumpy. A recent post on Vox made me grumpy – it’s about life satisfaction and GDP. At first I thought I’d ignore it. But this morning I was dipping … Continue reading
My new book is due out in March and it’s starting to feel real. Bound copies of the proofs arrived here this week, and now it’s in the Princeton University Press spring 2014 catalogue! You can even pre-order from Amazon … Continue reading
[amazon_link id=”019976719X” target=”_blank” ]Beyond GDP: Measuring Welfare and Assessing Sustainability[/amazon_link] by Marc Fleurbaey and Didier Blanchet is a technical book on the profoundly important question of how we measure “the economy”. The authors are two distinguished economists/statisticians who were respectively a … Continue reading
An intriguing-looking book has arrived: [amazon_link id=”1780322739″ target=”_blank” ]Gross Domestic Problem: The Politics Behind the World’s Most Powerful Number [/amazon_link]by Lorenzo Fioramonti. I’ve long thought people in general and economists in particular pay too little attention to statistics – how … Continue reading
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