The Gross Domestic Product, the famous GDP

Le Produit Intérieur brut, le fameux PIB

Jacques Fontanel ()
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Jacques Fontanel: CESICE - Centre d'études sur la sécurité internationale et les coopérations européennes - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes

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Abstract: GDP has become an essential indicator in the study of international relations, particularly for classifying states in their obsession with economic growth and development. While the economic aggregate itself is not lacking in conceptual simplifications that are sometimes debatable, its use is also dangerous at a time when the production system must be questioned in favour of sustainable development. It is therefore urgent to construct sets of indicators adapted to the questions asked and to abandon GDP to its sole meaning that retained by statisticians. In conclusion, the responsibility of statisticians is not only in the construction of useful aggregates to better understand the world around us, it is also to constantly remind us of the interest, but also the strict limits of their own conceptual constructions.

Keywords: GDP; Statitics; State power; Sustainable development; Statistiques; Puissance des Etats; Développement durable; PIB (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-10-20
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Published in World Statistic Day, St. Petersburg State University of Economics (UNECON), Oct 2020, Saint-Petersbourg, Russie

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