Clean environment and mental health: Some new thoughts on measuring national wellbeing
10 November 2019 - 18:18
Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang has promised that if he is elected US president he will “modernise GDP to include health, life expectancy, mental health and environmental quality”.
Yang argues that GDP is a “terrible measurement for national wellbeing”, and that the three chief indicators for measuring the economy — GDP, the unemployment rate and the stock market — are misleading because they don’t reflect the living conditions of most Americans...
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