The UK should stop obsessing over GDP. Wellbeing is more telling | Dan Button
by Dan Button from on (#4GVWR)
New Zealand has begun measuring national growth in a more nuanced way. Britain should follow its lead
This morning, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released the latest set of GDP figures. It is a familiar exercise common to most countries: a day when the broad state of an economy is judged according to small changes in a single indicator.
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