Replacing GDP by 2030 - Rutger Hoekstra

Replacing GDP by 2030

Towards a Common Language for the Well-being and Sustainability Community

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
362 Seiten
2019
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-73987-0 (ISBN)
46,10 inkl. MwSt
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the world's dominant indicator, yet it is well known that it is not a good measure of society's wellbeing or sustainability. For decades, beyond-GDP alternatives have been conceived but with negligible impact. Hoekstra proposes a new strategy for the beyond-GDP community which aims to replace the GDP paradigm by 2030.
How did Gross domestic product (GDP) become the world's most influential indicator? Why does it still remain the primary measure of societal progress despite being widely criticised for not considering well-being or sustainability? Why have the many beyond-GDP alternatives not managed to effectively challenge GDP's dominance? The success of GDP and the failure of beyond-GDP lies in their underlying communities. The macro-economic community emerged in the aftermath of the Great Depression and WWII. This community formalised their 'language' in the System of National Accounts (SNA) which provided the global terminology with which to communicate. On the other hand, beyond-GDP is a heterogeneous community which speaks in many dialects, accents and languages. Unless this changes, the 'beyond-GDP cottage industry' will never beat the 'GDP-multinational'. This book proposes a new roadmap to 2030, detailing how to create a multidisciplinary Wellbeing and Sustainability Science (WSS) with a common language, the System of Global and National Accounts (SGNA).

Rutger Hoekstra has worked on well-being and sustainability from an academic, governmental and business perspective. He has worked with the United Nations, OECD, World Bank, European Commission, European Central Bank and other international organisations. He was the co-chair of the UNECE/OECD/Eurostat Task Force which developed the Conference of European Statisticians Recommendations on Measuring Sustainable Development. He has lectured at various universities and published numerous publications on sustainable development, globalisation, circular economy and big data applications. He was also Scientific Director of the KPMG True Value methodology at KPMG Sustainability. Rutger Hoekstra is now the owner of MetricsForTheFuture.com, which provides consultancy services to governments, international institutes and companies on Beyond-GDP and Beyond-Profit.

Part I. Why A New Strategy Is Needed; 1. Replacing the most influential indicator in the world; 2. Why is GDP successful?; 3. What does GDP measure (and what does it not)?; 4. Why is beyond-GDP not successful?; Part II. The New Strategy: A Community for Well-being and Sustainability: 5. Outline of the strategy; 6. Global environmental accounts (GENA); 7. Global societal accounts (GSA); 8. Global economic accounts (GECA); 9. Global distribution accounts (GDA); 10. Global quality accounts (GQA) and quality indicators; 11. Implementation of the strategy.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises; 25 Tables, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 12 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 151 x 227 mm
Gewicht 620 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Makroökonomie
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Ökonometrie
ISBN-10 1-108-73987-3 / 1108739873
ISBN-13 978-1-108-73987-0 / 9781108739870
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