This past summer, I took professor Roberto Rigobon’s MIT Executive Education course on Macroeconomics, and I found it to be a fantastic course on a broad subject. I enjoyed the material as presented by him and his engaging and charismatic teaching style. He provides excellent insights into the inner workings of the forces that shape our economies and always brings it back to the individual and our choices around our values and how they, in turn, shape and inform our choices.

In this short webinar, Rigobon discusses the importance of measuring what counts. He notes that too often, we measure outcomes and not the processes that lean to them, and as a result, we create statistics that give us a false sense of accomplishment.