Global Thinkers Series: New Measures of the (Digital) Economy

Mar 20, 2018 (Tuesday)
12:30 – 14: 00
Wang Gungwu Theatre, Graduate House, HKU

Keynote by: Erik Brynjolfsson, Director of MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy
Moderated by: Victor Fung, Advisory Board Co-Chair, Asia Global Institute

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and metrics derived from it, like productivity, have been central to our understanding of economic progress. But GDP is a measure of production output, and therefore misses much of the contribution of the digital economy. Join MIT Professor Erik Brynjolfsson for a talk on his research and findings through various new measures that indicate that digital goods have created enormous gains in well-being which are largely missed by conventional measures of GDP and productivity.

Details & registration: http://www.asiaglobalinstitute.hku.hk/…/global-thinkers-ne…/
Organiser: Asia Global Institute