Opinion Alan Tuckett
By Alan Tuckett (February 2010 Issue)
0 Comments 
Article Rating: 
Email to a friend | Print Version
Nicolas Sarkozy gets an understandably sceptical press in Britain but his initiative in creating a Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress deserved a warm welcome. However its report, published in the autumn, has been overwhelmingly ignored in debates about employment and skills in this country.
The Commission was chaired by Joseph Stiglitz, with Amartya Sen, Jean-Paul Fitoussi and a glittering cast of advisers. Their brief was to consider whether we have the right tools of measurement to capture economic performance and social progress, rather than to make policy suggestions. But since, as they comment wryly, “what we measure shapes what we collectively strive to pursue – and what we pursue determines what we measure”, they expect their report and its implementation may have a significant impact on the way our societies look at themselves.
The Commission was chaired by Joseph Stiglitz, with Amartya Sen, Jean-Paul Fitoussi and a glittering cast of advisers. Their brief was to consider whether we have the right tools of measurement to capture economic performance and social progress, rather than to make policy suggestions. But since, as they comment wryly, “what we measure shapes what we collectively strive to pursue – and what we pursue determines what we measure”, they expect their report and its implementation may have a significant impact on the way our societies look at themselves.
We have only displayed above the opening paragraph of this article. If you are a TJ subscriber, login now so you can download a PDF of this article in full, free of charge. For non-subscribers the PDF can be purchased for £9.00 see the "Buy Now" Option above.
Readers Comment
Be the first to comment on this news story
Buy Now
You can download this article free by subscribing and logging in as a Full TJ member
Price: £1.00
Articles from this Issue
- Editorial
- Online opinion
- Opinion Peter Honey
- Across the pond
- Opinion Tricia Hartley
- Opinion Hugh Greenway
- Opinion Alan Tuckett
- Opinion Martyn Sloman
- Opinion Francis Marshall
- Viewpointy Robert Gillan
- TJ update
- Figuring e-learning out
- Adaptive intelligence
- Making learning personal
- How to make the most of role modelling
- Climate change and peak oil – responding to the big challenges
- Mending a broken team
- Possible futures for learning and development
- Towards organisational development
- Why change programmes fail
- Women and workplace politics
- Backing the winner in you
- A question of coaching
- Tools of the trade
- Tools of the trade at work
- Taking the team seriously
- Reviews
- Net check
- Instructional design
- Learning about e-learning
- In the mix
- Hints & tips
- Treading the boards