GDP Is Broken, But Some Are Trying To Fix It

A number of economists are taking on the challenge of making GDP richer, more detailed and more intimate—calling for the adoption of a better solution—something more than just a propaganda tool for those in power. As David Dawkins at Forbes writes, like so much of the Bretton Woods era global economic consensus, GDP is a broken measure that fails to answer so many of the urgent questions ordinary Americans are unable even to ask. Read the story at Forbes.com.