Saturday, August 22, 2015 Service
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
— -George Bernard Shaw-

We Can't Eat Gdp

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.

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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