(Italiano) Analisi critica delle misure di qualità della vita
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(Italiano) Teniamoci il Pil, ma ricordiamoci che non basta…
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(Italiano) L’intrigo, la felicità, i radicali: riassunto di due mesi di silenzio
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(Italiano) La felicità in tempi di crisi: ricetta danese e riflessione coreana
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Beyond Gdp, ambientalisti ed economisti a confronto
The “Beyond Gdp” meeting in Brussels put together environmentalists and economists on the concept of sustainable development and the ways to measure it. The old Gross domestic product is not perfect, but instead of quarreling ideologically around it, it is much better to work together researching new measures of the human progress. But the task…
Come nasce la statistica del 21° secolo
The bi-monthly magazine East, Europe and Asia STrategies published my article in Italian and English about the Istanbul Conference on “Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies” which took place in June. Shall we see The Gross National Happiness replace the Gross Domestic Product as main indicator of the well being of a country, as…
La ricchezza nell’era wikinomics
Wikinomics, the new system to which everybody contributes freely through internet, puts under discussion some of our basic economic concepts. The gross domestic product (Gdp), for example, is based on the idea of measuring “wealth”. But what is wealth if an important part of the economy develops without payments and without prices?
(Italiano) Giovannini: come cambia il sistema statistico internazionale
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Oecd: “Well being” is measured by Gdp?
The Report Going for Growth by Oecd, released on Tuesday 7th, includes a Chapter on “alternative measures of well being”. I am sorry that only a short summary of the report is freely available on line, with few references to this chapter, but I will try summarize
Three Italies: a revolution in family incomes
A new survey on the household budgets by the Bank of Italy gives food for thought on the evolution of the Italian economy. We were used to think that the Italian regions follow two different patterns: the North, with European standards of living, and the South, the Mezzogiorno, trying to catch up but always far behind.
The Italian central bank (Banca d’Italia), who has a very efficient research center, released the results of its biennial survey, with some surprising results.