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States are ditching GDP
Co-Authored with Lew Daly In Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Deep Thought informs Loonquawl that the meaning of life is 42. Loonquawl exclaims, “Is that all you’ve got to show for...
View ArticleInterviews 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 we should abolish the GDP
Co-Written with Lew Daly. Imagine this: your state is thinking about building a new coal plant. Gross domestic product measures how much money that project would produce. But it can’t account for the...
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