9781620975725_

Strong Sales of Previous Stiglitz/New Press titles: Mismeasuring Our Lives sold 10,600, and The Stiglitz Report sold 7246.

Popular Economics: Strong category for general interest readers.

Timing: Recent meltdown means that the public more receptive than ever to questioning how we measure economic growth and what does a stable economy really mean to the average person.

Author profile: Stiglitz among the highest-profile economists in the US with an excellent sales track.

Controversial: Introduces a bold new array of concepts, from sustainable measures of economic welfare, to measures of savings and wealth, to a green GDP.

Well connected authors: Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize winning economist with an international reputation and following and he will help promote.

A-list endorsements: Expecting major blurbs - we expect quotes from the likes of bestselling author David Cay Johnston and economists like Paul Krugman, Dean Baker, Jeff Madrick, etc.

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Todays leading economists weigh in with a new "dashboard" of metrics for measuring our economic and social health

"What we measure affects what we do. If we focus only on material well-beingon, say, the production of goods, rather than on health, education, and the environmentwe become distorted in the same way that these measures are distorted."
Joseph E. Stiglitz

A consensus has emerged among key experts that our conventional economic measures are out of sync with how most people live their lives. GDP, they argue, is a poor and outmoded measure of our well-being.

The global movement to move beyond GDP has attracted some of the worlds 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 determine what indicators can actually tell us about peoples lives.

In the first book of its kind, leading economists from around the world, including Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, Elizabeth Beasely, Jacob Hacker, Franois Bourguignon, Nora Lustig, Alan B. Krueger, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, describe a range of fascinating metricsfrom economic insecurity and environmental sustainability to inequality of opportunity and levels of trust and resiliencethat can be used to 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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