The measure of progress (Record no. 11524)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780691179025
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 330.9
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Personal name Coyle, Diane.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The measure of progress
Sub Title counting what really matters
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Princeton
Name of publisher Princeton University Press
Year of publication 2025
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Number of Pages ix, 306p.
Other physical details 26 cm
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc A book which explores how the digital transformation of the economy affects how we measure and interpret the true scale of innovation, productivity, and growth. Statistics are an essential guide for better economic policies. They also involve questions of freedom, justice, life and death, as governments - and increasingly machines - use statistics to make decisions affecting people's lives. This book argues that the conceptual framework underpinning today's economic statistics is out of date, and makes it impossible to measure, understand, and respond to what is really happening in the economy. According to Diane Coyle, we have been interpreting the economy through the lens of a statistical framework developed in the mid-twentieth century, when a lack of goods and services rather than natural resources was the binding constraint on growth, when the intangible value of intellectual property and digital assets were largely unaccounted for, and when the most pressing economic policy challenge was managing demand rather than supply. Today's challenges are vastly different. Growth in living standards in the rich economies has slowed significantly in recent decades, despite dramatic innovation in digital technologies. The geopolitical as well as the environmental landscape is fraught, and our belief in democracy increasingly strained. In The Measure of Progress, Diane Coyle comprehensively explores how the digital transformation affects how we measure the economy and our capacity to interpret the true scale of innovation, productivity, and growth. Her book also sets out some key principles for improving measurement. A true understanding of the economy, she argues, will require different data collected in a different framework of categories and definitions. Only then will policymakers, businesses, and individuals be able to shape a better, sustainable future
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Topical Term Econometrics
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        UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam Sustainable Development 06/19/2026 81303.00 330.9COY UR010593 06/24/2026 Book
        UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam Sustainable Development 06/19/2026 81303.00 330.9COY UR010594 06/24/2026 Book