Measuring What Counts

Strong Sales of Previous Stiglitz/New Press titles:  Mismeasuring Our Lives sold 10,600, and The Stiglitz Report sold 7246.

Popular Economics: Strong category for general interest readers.

Timing: Recent meltdown means that the public is more receptive than ever to questioning how we measure economic growth and what a stable economy really means to the average person.

Author profile: Stiglitz is among the highest-profile economists in the US with an excellent sales track.

Controversial: Introduces a bold new array of concepts, from sustainable measures of economic welfare, to measures of savings and wealth, to a “green GDP.”

Well connected authors: Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize winning economist with an international reputation and following and he will help promote. 

A-list endorsements: Expecting major blurbs - we expect quotes from the likes of bestselling author David Cay Johnston and economists like Paul Krugman, Dean Baker, Jeff Madrick, etc.