The year is 1937 and National Bureau of Economic Research economist, Simon Kuznets, has just…
The Rise and Fall of GDP
A very interesting article on the push against GDP, used as a measure of progress and the development of alternative sets of measures appeared in the New York Times Magazine today. This is highly recommended reading and points to how timely our upcoming Vermont Conference, GNH 2010: Changing What we Measure from Wealth to Well-Being is. GNHUSA is an important next piece, that of public education on the why and how of changing what we measure to well-being and the Conference serves to bring the many players in academia, government and non-profits into an environment where we can all share and move together toward sustainable and happy futures.