Mismeasuring Our Lives

"A provocative new study . . . [which] amounts to a treatise on the inadequacy of GDP growth as an indication of overall economic health." —The New York TimesNobel Prize–Winning AuthorsIn February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize–winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist ...