{"product_id":"graph-economics-a-multi-unit-framework-for-measuring-the-real-economy","title":"Graph Economics: A Multi-Unit Framework for Measuring the Real Economy","description":"Amazon Book Description\nWhat if money is not the economy, but only one way of measuring it?\nGraph Economics: A Multi-Unit Framework for Measuring the Real Economy introduces a new way of thinking about economic measurement, value, accounting, public policy, business performance, and human wellbeing.\nModern economies are organised around money. We measure GDP, profit, wages, prices, inflation, productivity, asset values, tax receipts, and financial returns. These measures are powerful, necessary, and useful. But they are incomplete.\nThe real economy is larger than money.\nIt includes time, work, quality, capability, care, trust, energy, emissions, risk, relationships, resilience, public value, institutional confidence, environmental condition, and human wellbeing. Many of these forms of value are poorly measured, measured too late, or ignored until they become financial costs.\nThis book argues that the next stage of economic accounting must be multi-unit, graph-based, evidence-linked, and decision-focused.\nGraph Economics proposes a framework for measuring the real economy through:\neconomic events beyond financial transactions\nmulti-unit measurement beyond money alone\nchart families for work, quality, capability, care, trust, risk, emissions, public value, and wellbeing\neconomic journals beyond traditional financial journals\nreal economy statements that sit beside financial statements\nexplainability chains that connect claims back to evidence\nnational graph accounts that expand economic measurement beyond GDP\ngoverned measurement systems that protect privacy, dignity, and accountability\nThis is not a book against money, markets, profit, or GDP. It treats them as essential. But it argues that they are not enough.\nA business can be profitable while depleting trust, quality, capability, and human capacity. A government can spend money without creating public value. A nation can grow GDP while weakening housing stability, care capacity, ecological condition, institutional trust, and wellbeing. An investor can fund projected value while missing the real evidence of progress.\nGraph Economics offers a new language and architecture for measuring value more honestly.\nWritten for readers interested in economics, accounting, public policy, business strategy, sustainability, impact measurement, governance, innovation, systems thinking, and the future of capitalism, this book provides a serious foundation for a new field of economic thought.\nIt is for founders, accountants, economists, investors, policymakers, public servants, not-for-profit leaders, systems designers, and anyone who believes the economy should be measured by more than money alone.\nMoney is not the economy. It is one measurement layer inside it.\nThe task now is to build the others.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B0GYLK9JJM\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.B0GYLK9JJM.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Origliasso, Mr Julian Alexander\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44452971446333,"sku":"BVV.B0GYLK9JJM.G","price":24.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/B0GYLK9JJM-0.jpg?v=1793916268","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/graph-economics-a-multi-unit-framework-for-measuring-the-real-economy","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}