For more than ten years, sociologist Dominique Méda has criticized the inadequacies of GDP. One of the first, she underlined the inability of this wealth indicator to take into account inequalities, social health and environmental degradation. The life of ideas collected his analysis after the publication of the report coordinated by Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen and Jean-Paul Fitoussi.
Dominique Méda is a member of the Fair collective (Forum for other wealth indicators).
Video summary:
- Does the Stiglitz report introduce a rupture in the way we measure the richness of a country ?
- Does the report nevertheless offer original ideas, new types of indicators ?
- Are there foreign examples or premises for the use of alternative indicators that we could be inspired by ?
- Is it up to the experts to define the indicators of the wealth and well-being of a company ? What do you think of any political uses of this report ?