{"id":38798,"date":"2010-04-01T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/comment-mesurer-le-bonheur\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T22:24:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T21:24:15","slug":"comment-mesurer-le-bonheur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/comment-mesurer-le-bonheur\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Measure Happiness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='post-container'><p>\u201cIt is time our statistical system put more emphasis on measuring the well-being of the population than on measuring economic production\u201d noted the Stiglitz Commission in September 2009 in its Report on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. \u201cFor there is a growing disparity between the information conveyed by aggregated GDP data and the data that are really of importance for the well-being of individuals.\u201d Used wrongly, adds the Commission, GDP can even lead to a \u201cskewed view\u201d of economic realities.<br \/>\nShould we put an end, then, to measuring economic production as a way of assessing the wealth of a nation, and attend to the \u201cpursuit of happiness\u201d instead? Matters are not so simple, replies Pierre Le Roy in this article, reminding us that the members of the Stiglitz Commission are not the first to contest the relevance of GDP, a measure which, despite many critiques, is still the key indicator today for economists, \u201cwho are lazily content with it\u201d.<br \/>\nWhy is this? \u201cGDP has no credible rival\u2026 It is very difficult to achieve agreement on fashioning a different instrument that comes closer to the measurement of well-being\u201d, observes Pierre Le Roy. In order to clarify the debate, Le Roy, recalling the failings of GDP and the conclusions of the Stiglitz Report, gives an account of the main research on this theme and the various methods devised for measuring individual and collective happiness. <\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is time our statistical system put more emphasis on measuring the well-being of the population than on measuring economic production\u201d noted the Stiglitz Commission in September 2009 in its Report on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. \u201cFor there is a growing disparity between the information conveyed by aggregated GDP data and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/comment-mesurer-le-bonheur\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1324],"tags":[212],"keyword":[1178,1118,891],"class_list":["post-38798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-revue-futuribles","tag-societe-en","keyword-produit-national-brut-en","keyword-societe-en","keyword-systeme-de-valeurs-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51621,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38798\/revisions\/51621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38798"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=38798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}