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Aug 22, 2015

"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 country's "success" ignores many of the positives (and negatives) that determine a population's 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 we're going.