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Rise and Fall of the GDP

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Read the article Rise and Fall of the  GDP in the New York Times Magazine.  The author Jon Gertner  attended a presentation on the Canadian Index of Well-Being presented by Alex Michalos,  a former chancellor at the University of Northern British Columbia. The presentation on the Canadian Index of Well Being is available here.  Michalos’ […]

OECD Statistical Narratives

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

The OECD has just launched a new page that it is calling “Statistical Narratives.” The aim of this page is to feature select statistical tables – usually from a topical subject – and present them with a brief explanatory article.  The result?  A sort of news feature mashed up with supporting data.  The articles are […]

G8 Summit Resource

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Well, this find seemed topical.  There is a G8 research group at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto.  The group maintains a very useful website: http://www.g8.utoronto.ca/ which provides access to a large chunk of the group’s analysis and reports.  Monographs published by commercial publishers are not available online. The site […]

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