Last week I attended the excellent conference of the International Association for Income and Wealth Research – 75 years old this year, founded and launched by national income luminaries such as Simon Kuznets, Richard Stone and Milton Gilbert. The articles are worth perusing for anyone interested in economic measurement. It’s always interesting to hear what books are being referenced at a conference, so here are all the references I picked up, dominated by economic measurement but broader than you might expect:
think fast and slow –Daniel Kahneman
How to make the world add up –Tim Harford
Trust the numbers – Theodore Porter
Until this last –John Ruskins
Man’s quest for meaning –Victor Frankl
The power of a single digit – Philipp Lepenies
GDP: a brief but loving history – Diane Coyle
A brief history of equality -Thomas Piketty
The poetic circle of the Stasi – Philippe Olterman
A history of national accounting – André Vanoli
Measuring social well-being (1997) and Productivity: information technologies and the resurgence of American growth (2005) – Dale Jorgenson
