‘Beyond GDP’
Tracks efforts in many countries to correct national money-based accounts and scorecards of progress, e.g., GDP. Covers new scorecards beyond money and economics which use systems approaches to quality of life measure by multiple metrics from many sciences and disciplines. These indicators add tracking health, education, poverty gaps and environment.
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American Monetary Institute: The Usury Problem Remains
AMERICAN MONETARY INSTITUTE PO BOX 601, VALATIE, NY 12184 Tel. 518-392-5387, email [email protected] http://www.monetary.org Stephen Zarlenga, Director Dedicated to the independent study of monetary history, theory, and reform THE USURY PROBLEM REMAINS We’ve been to the moon; were on the verge of artificially creating life, yet we have [...]
Grant for Innovative Socio-economic Models 2011
Grant for Innovative Socio-economic Models 2011 International open call for proposals Given the dramatic failure of social, economic and political models in the twentieth century, we need to aim at surpassing these models, with the objective of ensuring that the entire world population is able to cover their basic needs sustainably. Across [...]
The Global Green Economy Index–A Project Measuring National Green Reputations
The Global Green Economy Index is an annual survey measuring expert perceptions of national green reputations along the dimensions of leadership, policy, investment and tourism. In 2011, 27 countries will be measured in addition to their largest metropolitan area. This project serves as an important tool for nations to monitor how their commitment [...]
EMM Covering “Statistics for Policymaking: Europe 2020″ Conference Brussels – March 10-11, 2011
Ethical Markets Media European correspondent Lisa Cowan will be covering the "Statistics for policymaking: Europe 2020" Conference in Brussels - March 10-11, 2011. The aim of the conference is to bring together politicians and statisticians in a dialogue about how to shape statistics underpinning policy making and political decision making. How [...]
Sustainable Society Index, SSI-2010
New report SSI-2010 now on-line. This is to inform you that the full report of the newest update Sustainable Society Index, SSI-2010, is now available on-line. To download the report, go to www.ssfindex.com . Kind regards, Geurt van de Kerk Sustainable Society Foundation [email protected] www.ssfindex.com
Economics profession aloof, irrelevant and impotent – director of new economic think-tank
Embargo: 4th February 2011. Contact: Georgia Lee: 07748565958 [email protected] www.primeeconomics.org (site will go live on Friday, 4th February, 2011) To coincide with the 75th anniversary of the publication of Keynes’s General Theory, a new think-tank is launched today: Policy Research in MacroEconomics (PRIME). Ann Pettifor, a [...]
GDP Scorecards Still Misleading Governments, Banks, and Investors as New Survey Shows Disconnect
SYNDICATED DISTRIBUTION TO 200 CLIENTS IN ASIA, EUROPE, LATIN AMERICA AND AFRICA. For information on subscribing to IPS Columnist Service, Rome, contact Pablo Piacentini at [email protected], fax 39-06-4817877, or his assistant Francesca Buffo at [email protected] For permission to syndicate or reprint contact: Pablo Piacentini at [...]
Grossly Distorted Picture: GDP Still Misleading
Grossly Distorted Picture: GDP Still Misleading Governments, Banks and Investors by Omitting Asset Accounts By Hazel Henderson, for CSRWire Talkback The GDP results, however revised for the final quarter of 2010, will remain unreliable in charting recovery and progress in Europe, the USA and most other countries. GDP is now a Grossly [...]
EAERE 2011 – Call for paper
REMINDER There are 15 days left to submit your paper! Deadline for submission of papers: February 1st, 2011 EAERE 18th Annual Conference University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome Italy 29 June - 2nd July, 2011 http://www.eaere2011.org/ Dear Friends and Colleagues, You are invited to submit theoretical and applied papers in all areas [...]
Continued Public Support for Going ‘Beyond GDP’: Global Poll
Continued Public Support for Going ‘Beyond GDP’: Global Poll (PDF press release) Click here for the survey results (PDF) London, January 21, 2011, 09:00 GMT: A new global poll across 12 countries reveals that more than two-thirds of people polled think that economic statistics like GDP are an inadequate way of measuring national [...]
