The Committee "Stiglitz" will make its report shortly, but the press already has the first elements.
Waiting to read the report, but taken from the press and the first known elements make me think well. In short: a good indicator of controlling a country is not the GDP (which measures the intensity of economic activity, without looking at what it contributes, or whether this activity makes them realize that the happier) but rather a broader set of indicators that measure the "useful products" of this activity (improving health, education, social cohesion ,...) and deduce the "nuisance" (pollution, noise, stress ,...). You can have many effects shoestring , and the opposite may be true .
In fact, run a country by focusing on GDP returns to drive a car by looking only at the speedometer , without looking at the point of arrival, accidents or consumption of gasoline. Research Interest General calls instead to focus on everything else (Kennedy said, "GDP measures everything except what is really important").
It is hindered in two difficulties. The first is the complexity of democratic debate, because you must not follow a single figure (GDP), but dozens of indicators (physical and mental health, integration, happiness, sense of security ,...), and how they change at any time and any place. The second difficulty is the existence or not of measurement tools (we easily measure the money that circulates in an economy, more difficult to happiness, public or secret, citizens). Now it is easier to manage what is measured - which often leads organizations to focus not on what is most important, but what is measured most easily ...
total, and the metaphor of driving, a driver who does not look that speed does not need much experience or think about the path or point of arrival. The solution is not, in my opinion, fall into of anarcho-nihilism .
What to flight of a country is able to put a face discussions, in their subtlety and complexity (like the one launched par la commission Stiglitz), et d'avoir une vision, de l'expérience, de la technique et beaucoup de doigté ...
Le mot de la fin appartient à John Kay, dans sa chronique du Financial Times, qui dit "In Peter Weir’s film Dead Poets Society, Robin Williams portrays a charismatic teacher obliged to teach from a text by J. Evans Pritchard. Mr Pritchard explains that “if a poem’s score for perfection is plotted along the horizontal of a graph, and its importance is plotted on the vertical, then calculating the total area of the poem yields the measure of its greatness”. Williams tells his pupils to tear these pages from the book, and goes on to inspire them with a genuine love of literature. We should "approach" bogus quantification In The Same Way. "
NB: The report is finally out. can download it here.
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