The Measure of Progress
counting what really matters
$46.40
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2025
Summary
The Outdated Lens: Reimagining Economic Measurement for the Modern Age
Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today’s economy?
The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940s, when the urgent economic problems were entirely different from those of today. In The Measure of Progress, Diane Coyle argues that the framework underpinning today’s economic statistics is so outdated that it functions a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691179025 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691179026 |
| Author: | Diane Coyle |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 688g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm |
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Critics Review
”[The Measure of Progress] should be widely read by anyone involved in economic policymaking or research.”—Vic Duggan, Irish Times“We should ALL read this important book… . While many of GDP’s shortcomings are well-known, Coyle sets out elegantly and compellingly why these issues have now become so numerous, and so serious, that we should rethink radically how we measure our progress.”—Kate Barker, The Society of Professional Economists
About The Author
Diane Coyle
Diane Coyle is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is and What It Should Be, GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History, and many other books.
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