Stiglitz report Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/stiglitz-report/ Independent research and policy analysis on fiscal, monetary, and regulatory issues in Europe Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:18:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://en.irefeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/04/IREF-LinkedIn-Profile-DarkBlue-scaled.png Stiglitz report Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/stiglitz-report/ 32 32 France could almost catch up USA income per capita if leisure is included in the statistics https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/france-could-almost-catch-up-usa-income-per-capita-if-leisure-is-included-in-the-statistics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=france-could-almost-catch-up-usa-income-per-capita-if-leisure-is-included-in-the-statistics https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/france-could-almost-catch-up-usa-income-per-capita-if-leisure-is-included-in-the-statistics/#respond Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:18:37 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/other-publications/news/france-could-almost-catch-up-usa-income-per-capita-if-leisure-is-included-in-the-statistics/ No, this is not a joke, but one of the suggestions of the very serious and very official report that the French President Sarkozy commissioned to the Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz. Indeed, according to the figures presented by the headed by Stiglitz Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, the traditional disposable income measure, which estimates income per capita in France to be only 66% of income in the US, is inadequate.

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