Seminar Series Measuring Prosperity Session 7 – Moving Beyond GDP through Comprehensive Wealth Accounting
Politicians, investors, businesspeople, and the public around the world look to GDP as the primary judge of how well their countries are doing. For most of the post-World War II era, GDP growth has been taken as a sine qua non of progress. Countries have been said to be moving in the right direction when their market economies, as measured by GDP, were expanding. … Read more