Does GDP bring happiness? The need for new indicators

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6 publications

• Co-operatives for Sustainable Communities Tools to Measure Co-operative Impact and Performance

  The Measuring the Co-operative Difference has commissioned a book exploring themes and tools related to measuring co-operative impact and performance.

  Edited by Leslie Brown, Chiara Carini, Jessica Gordon-Nembhard,, Lou Hammond-Ketilson, Elizabeth Hicks,, John McNamara, Sonja Novkovic, Daphne Rixon, Richard Simmons., The Centre for the Study of Co-operatives at the University of Saskatchewan, August 2015

• A guide to Social Return on Investment (SROI) (revised)

  The SROI Network (UK) Jeremy Nicholls, Ellis Lawlor, Eva Neitzert, Tim Goodspeed, The SROI Network (UK), January 2012

• The Wealth of Nature. Economics as If Survival Mattered.

  John Michael Greer, New society Publishers, United States, June 2011

• A bit rich. Calculating the real value to society of different professions

  December 2009

  NEF

• The Economics of Happiness Building Genuine Wealth

  Mark Anielski, New Society Publishers, United States, June 2007

• Real-life Economics: Understanding Wealth Creation.

  Edited by Paul Ekins, Manfred Max-Neef, Routledge, London, UK., 1992

2 Videos

• Social impact practice: reflections from social purpose organisations in France and the UK

  2015

• Caring Economy Campaign Goes Beyond GDP: Social Wealth Economic Indicators

  2014

A pedagogical tool

• No small change. Evaluating the success of your community currency project

  April 2014

  NEF

One proposal

• A well-being manifesto for a flourishing society

  A well-being manifesto from NEF (New Economics Foundation) which seeks to answer the question « what would politics look like if promoting people’s well-being was one of government’s main aims? »

  September 2004

  NEF

32 Analyses/working papers/articles

• Measuring What Matters Australia’s First Wellbeing Framework

  Australian Government

  2023

• Fairtrade: Exploring our impact. A review on research on Fairtrade from 2015 - 2020.

  July 2022

• Lasting Impact. Measuring the social impact of worker and social cooperatives in Europe: focus on Italy and Spain

  CECOP Publication

  Francesca Zaganelli,, Anton Möller,, Pedro Blazquez, Vincenzo De Bernardo, lerio VaPellirossi, February 2022

• Cooperative identity as a yardstick for transformative change

  Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics.

  2021

• Sustainable Wellbeing Operationalization and Measurement Based on the Capabilities Approach: The Case of Latin America

  Sustainability 2021, 13, 12202.

  Jhoner Perdomo, Mauricio Phélan Casanova, Sary Levy-Carciente, 2021

• Sustainable Development Impact Indicators for Social and Solidarity Economy State of the Art

  Working Paper 2019

  Gabriel Salathé-Beaulieu, Marie J. Bouchard, Marguerite Mendell, May 2019

  UNRISD

• Monitoring the SDGs: Digital and Social Technologies to Ensure Citizen Participation, Inclusiveness and Transparency

  Raymond Saner, Lichia Saner-Yiu, Melanie Nguyen, 2019

• Conceptual Framework for the Purpose of Measurement of Cooperatives and its Operationalization

  ILO Publication

  Marie J. Bouchard, Madeg Le Guernic, Damien Rousselière, October 2017

  BIT/ILO

• National Wellbeing : Assessment of Change September 2016 release

  Office for National Statistics UK

  September 2016

• The New Zealand Treasury’s Living Standards Framework - Exploring a Stylised Model

  Girol Karacaoglu, September 2015

• Measuring the Co‐operative Difference: Community Impact and Member Engagement Towards a Resilient Society

  Final Report. Conference Tools to Measure Co-operative Performance and Impact, May 22-24 2014, Saint-Mary’s University

  John McNamara, May 2014

• Happy Country, Happy Government: How Useful are International Happiness Rankings?

  Think piece UNRISD

  Nadine van Dijk, Lizzie Spencer, Viviana Ramirez, March 2014

  UNRISD

• Decent Work Indicators guidelines for producers and users of statistical and legal framework indicators

  ILO Manual.Second version.

  December 2013

  BIT/ILO

• Report on results on action research: barriers to the use of alternative (‘beyond GDP’) indicators in policy making and how they are being overcome and can be overcome.

  BRAINPOoL deliverable 3.1, A collaborative project funded by the European Commission under the FP7 programme (Contract no. 283024). nef (the new economics foundation),

  Charles Seaford, November 2013

• Classification of Social economy organizations

  Edith Jeanne Archambault, June 2013

• Sustainable Australia Report 2013 CONVERSATIONS WITH THE FUTURE : summary

  National Sustainability Council Australian Government

  May 2013

• Are Mental Models Shaping SSE Reality? Conceptualizing, Measuring and Evaluating SSE Performance

  Think pieces for the UNRISD conference “Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy”. 6-8 May 2013

  Benjamin R. Quiñones, Jr., May 2013

  UNRISD

• Measuring Progress Towards Sustainable Development Goals

  Working paper IISD Report

  Laszlo Pinter, January 2013

• Book : National indicators and Social wealth

  Erwin de Leon, December 2012

• Measures of Australia’s Progress - aspirations for our nation: a conversation with Australians about progress

  Australian Bureau of Statistics

  November 2012

• Redefining Progress in Light of the Ecological Crisis

  Dominique Méda, November 2012

  Institut Veblen pour les réformes économiques

• Review report on Beyond GDP indicators: categorisation, intensions and impacts.

  Final version of BRAINPOoL deliverable 1.1, A collaborative project funded by the European Commission under the FP7 programme (Contract no. 283024). CUEC Prague

  Tomáš Hák, Svatava Janoušková, Charles Seaford, Saamah Abdallah, Sorcha Mahony, October 2012

• Defining a New Economic Paradigm: The Report of the High-Level Meeting on Wellbeing and Happiness, Bhutan

  United Nations

  Alexis J. Passadakis, April 2012

• WellBeing, Choice and Sustainability. What should Economic Policy target in a new Era Economy

  Amna Silim, April 2012

• BEYOND GDP NEW MEASURES FOR A NEW ECONOMY

  January 2012

  Demos

• 21 hours. Why a shorter working week can help us all to flourish in the 21st century

  February 2010

  NEF

• Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress

  Joseph E. Stiglitz, Amartya SEN, Jean-Paul FITOUSSI, September 2009

• Measuring the impact of fair trade on development

  Development in Practice, 19:6, 777-788

  Guillermo Zúñiga-Arias, July 2009

• Seven principles for measuring what matters .A guide to effective public policy-making

  January 2009

  NEF

• MANUAL FOR DRAWING UP THE SATELLITE ACCOUNTS OF COMPANIES IN THE SOCIAL ECONOMY: CO-OPERATIVES AND MUTUAL SOCIETIES

  José Barea Tejeiro, José Luis Monzón Campos, December 2006

  CIRIEC

• Towards an Evaluation Framework for the Social Economy: Typologies and Effects

  Concept paper written for the WSSE Dakar, Senegal meeting (Nov 19-21, 2005).

  Marie J. Bouchard, Jérôme Leblanc, Valérie Michaud, October 2005

  UQAM

• Economic Growth and Social Exclusion

  Statement of the contradictions between the macroeconomic indicators - which influence government politics - and the reality of social problems - which are not taken into account.

  Jaerson Bezerra, October 2000

3 public contributions

• The “Stiglitz report”: A well-argued assessment, a questionable method, and proposals that are not up to current challenges

  A response by the FAIR forum (Forum for Other Indicators of Wealth) to the draft summary report issued by the Stiglitz Commission on alternative indicators to GDP

  July 2009

  FAIR

• Designing Indicators for the Solidarity Economy

  Concept paper written for the WSSE Dakar, Senegal meeting,2005

  Bernardo Reyes, October 2005

• Proposals for a plural assessment of wealth

  List of the proposals that emerged from the seminar at the WSF2005.

  January 2005

4 articles

• REAS: Audit/Social Balance Report 2023

  Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, December 2023

  REAS, Red de redes, December 2023

  REAS, RIPESS Europe

• If you do Social and Solidarity Economy … Campaign ¡muÉSStrate!

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - May 2021

  May 2021

  RIPESS Europe, REAS

• The Economist Placing Value on Black Women’s Overlooked Work

  Article of the New York Times, February 5, 2021

  February 2021

• The UK should stop obsessing over GDP. Wellbeing is more telling

  Opinion in The Guardian, June 10, 2019

  Dan Button, June 2019

• Proposals « For a solidary, prosperous, and green recovery in Quebec. »

  G15+ (Chantier de l’économie sociale), January 2022

  RIPESS Intercontinental, Chantier de l’économie sociale