With apologies for any cross-posting. Please see details of a talk I am giving on January 7th in South Wales. I would be pleased to give the talk in other locations if of interest, do get in touch.
Thanks,
Paul
PAUL ALLIN, CStat, FRSA
Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London
tel: +44 (0) 74 07 13 81 34
*** New book: Allin P. and Hand D.J. (2014) "The Wellbeing of Nations: Meaning, Motive and Measurement", John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester
http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118489578.html
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From: Markus Sova [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 16 December 2014 16:15
To: Markus Sova
Subject: RSS meeting in Newport, January 7th
Dear RSS fellow,
The next meeting of the RSS South Wales local group will be on Wednesday 7th January 2015 at 5pm (tea and coffee at 4:30pm) in room R.101, Office for National Statistics, Cardiff Road, Newport. See link below for directions:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/who-ons-are/office-locations/index.html
Paul Allin will give a talk entitled "Third Time Lucky? - What we can learn from earlier attempts to measure more than GDP?" and has supplied the following summary:
There is increasing interest in measuring well-being and progress more widely than by the national economic accounts. The ONS’s Measuring National Well-being programme and developments by the Welsh Government are exemplars in going ‘beyond GDP’. However, the many current initiatives on this front form the ‘second wave’ of attempts to usurp GDP, recalling the social indicators movement in the 1960s as the ‘first wave’. We add in Sir John Sinclair’s Statistical Account of Scotland from the 1790s to reinforce the point that measuring things differently is not enough: new measures will have to be used in government, business and everyday life.
All welcome. Please let me know if you are likely to attend.
An A4 poster for the event is attached. Please be encouraged to use this to publicise the event to your colleagues.
Yours sincerely,
Markus Sova
For the latest data on the economy and society, consult National Statistics at http://www.ons.gov.uk<http://www.ons.gov.uk/>
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