{"id":2457,"date":"2018-03-13T16:27:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T08:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2018-03-27T12:44:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T04:44:24","slug":"mar-20-new-measures-of-the-digital-economy-wang-gungwu-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/2018\/03\/13\/mar-20-new-measures-of-the-digital-economy-wang-gungwu-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Mar 20 | New Measures of the (Digital) Economy | Wang Gungwu Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mar 20 | New Measures of the (Digital) Economy | Wang Gungwu Theatre
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Global Thinkers Series: New Measures of the (Digital) Economy
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Mar 20, 2018 (Tuesday)
\n12:30 \u2013 14: 00
\nWang Gungwu Theatre, Graduate House, HKU<\/span><\/p>\n

Keynote by: Erik Brynjolfsson, Director of MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy
\nModerated by: Victor Fung, Advisory Board Co-Chair, Asia Global Institute<\/p>\n

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. <\/span><\/p>\n

Details & registration: http:\/\/www.asiaglobalinstitute.hku.hk\/\u2026\/global-thinkers-ne\u2026\/
\n<\/a><\/span>Organiser: Asia Global Institute<\/p>\n

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