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Mismeasuring Our Lives: Why GDP Doesn't Add Up Rob Palmer Tracy CliffordIn February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean Paul Fitoussi, to establish a commission of leading economists to study whether Gross Domestic Product (GDP) the most widely used measure of economic activity is a reliable indicator of economic and social progress. The Commission was