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The Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi-Report: Old Wine in New Skins? Views from a Social Indicators Perspective

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Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research | Ausgabe 1/2011

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The recently published report by the “Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress” is being discussed and commented from the point of view of social indicators research, which addresses issues of the measurement of well-being and social progress since the 1960s. Some of the recommendations made by the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi—Report thus seem to be well known and all but new and innovative from a social indicators perspective. It is also argued that the report ignores some of the available approaches, instruments and ongoing activities to measure and monitor well-being and the quality of life, which go well beyond GDP, such as e.g. social reports. The Commission’s report is nevertheless considered a major step forward towards a considerably improved measurement of well-being and social progress.

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Meanwhile the report is also available in a book version (Stiglitz et al. 2010).

It seems to be noteworthy here, that the Australian Bureau of Statistics (2001) had already radically reorganized its social statistics 10 years ago by focusing its activities at the measurement of well-being.

Easterlin (2010: 120) reminds us in his notes on this report "that a group of distinguished economists… would assert that in measuring social progress serious attention should be given to self-reports of subjective feelings comes close to economic heresy".

Results from the Welfare Surveys 1978,1980 and 1984 have been published in English as a "German Social Report" in Social Indicators Research, 19 (1987) 5–171.

See e.g. Biderman (1966) as well as Bertram M. Gross, who—in his preface to the first book on "Social Indicators" (Bauer 1966)—critizises the "economic Philistinism" and notes: "If we examine the President's major policy documents, particularly the Economic Report and the Budget Message, we find practically no information whatsoever on "social structures". We find that the major indicators deal not with how good but how much, not with the quality of our lives but rather with the quantity of goods and dollars" (Gross 1966: xiii). Ironically, he also refers to a 'National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress', which in its "final report points out that our ability to chart social change has lagged seriously behind our ability to measure economic change". (Gross 1966: xiv).

See e.g. Henderson et al. 2000; Noll 2002; OECD 2009. The data from the European and German Systems of Social Indicators are accessible through the online information system "Social Indicators Monitor—SIMon" at www.gesis.org/SIMon.

For information on major European social reports, see the following website: www.gesis.org/social-reporting-in-europe

See the following observations on the composition of the Commission by Easterlin (2010: 119): "The 25-member group includes 22 scholars with advanced degrees in economics. Of the other three, two are leading contributors to behavioral economics, the third a pioneer in the study of social capital. Eight members were born in the United States, six in France, and three in Britain; four of the remainder are from developing countries: Only two members are female."

See the following website of the German Federal Government (visited September 10, 2010): http://www.bundesregierung.de/Content/DE/Artikel/2010/02/2010-02-04-deutsch-franzoesische-agenda-2020.html.

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Titel: The Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi-Report: Old Wine in New Skins? Views from a Social Indicators Perspective
verfasst von: Heinz-Herbert Noll
Publikationsdatum: 01.05.2011
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research / Ausgabe 1/2011
Print ISSN: 0303-8300
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0921
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-010-9738-9

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