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Moving Beyond GDP
The 2007 economic crisis and the lingering stagnation it wrought has lead economists, philosophers and policymakers to a profound rethinking of how we measure economic performance and social progress....
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Why more GDP might not make us happy
Eugenio Proto and Aldo Rustichini have written a new column for VOX in which they argue that once GDP per capita reaches a certain level, it actually begins to correlate with lower life satisfaction....
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What a Wall Street banker says about our society
n the New York Times, a former Wall Street banker begins a deep and emotional piece on wealth addiction with the following confession: In my last year on Wall Street my bonus was $3.6 million — and I...
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Interviews with the governors and economists working on the GPI
Lew Daly and I have a new piece on The New Republic examining states implementing the Genuine Progress Indicator. Because the piece is meant for a broad audience, some of the finer points had to be...
View ArticleWhy economists should try to measure happiness
hen discussing media, the philosopher Marshall McLuhan once said, “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” Much the same principle applies to economic indicators; once they have been...
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