Pre-analysis article: Measuring Growth

in100y doodle3

This is not economic growth
Economic growth as a concept is deeply riddled with problems. The word growth implies that there is a thing getting bigger, but the economy is not a thing – it’s a complex network, untold numbers of products and services, some of which will expand while others decline, some emerge and some fades.
download abstract in english
download article in danish
Do also read the article summing up the critique of GNP from the French Commission “GNP is not happiness”
 

Comments are closed.