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We Can’t Eat GDP

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August 22, 2015

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We Can't Eat GDP

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

– -George Bernard Shaw- –

We Can’t Eat GDP

What does GDP – gross domestic product – fail to account for? When we really start to dig into the numbers, we find that this long-held standard for a countryâs âsuccessâ ignores many of the positives (and negatives) that determine a populationâs welfare and well-being. But new possibilities are already out there. Lorenzo Fioramonti shares exciting ideas for new measurements of progress, and what they can tell us about ourselves, and where weâre going. { read more }

Be The Change

How do you measure progress in your own life? Would your top three make it into the GDP?

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