Émile Quinet offers an analysis of the Report of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, chaired by Joseph Stiglitz. He reminds us, for example, of the pertinence of the “classical critiques of GDP (Gross Domestic Product)”, the tenor of which he presents here. But while welcoming, above and beyond the Summary Report, “the impressive amount of deep scientific work” done by the Commission, he expresses amazement that it was made up exclusively of economists and that the other social sciences were sidelined.
Money Doesn’t Bring Happiness
This article is published in Futuribles journal no.362, avril 2010
