Measuring Production in the Digital Age

As a public policy think tank dedicated to studying issues that resonate internationally, France Stratégie publishes regularly in English on the labour market, the digital economy, sustainable development, economics and social affairs.On 31 May 2016, France Stratégie and CEPII organized a debate on whether the digital economy is accounted for accurately in GDP. Sir Charles Bean, professor of economics at the London School of Economics and former deputy governor for monetary policy at the Bank of England, was invited to discuss the challenges facing the measurement of production in the wake of his report on the digital economy and statistics for the UK government, published in March 2016. The following article is based on remarks delivered by Fabrice Lenglart at the event.