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On Earth Day, prepare for the annual spectacle of U.S. lawmakers donning their environmentalist hats, waxing poetic about their love for the planet while - Melissa Garriga for Antiwar.com

As Earth Day approaches, prepare for the annual spectacle of U.S. lawmakers donning their environmentalist hats, waxing poetic about their love for the

Bangladesh should establish a comprehensive GPI system tailored to the country's unique challenges and aspirations

The year 2024 must be a turning point for shifting policies away from gross domestic product and towards sustainable well-being. Here’s why and how. The year 2024 must be a turning point for shifting policies away from gross domestic product and towards sustainable well-being. Here’s why and how.

Richard Heinberg lays out what policy makers, communities, and families can do to build a new economy that operates within Earth's budget of energy and resources.

Labour says a radically different approach is needed to take in social and environmental factors

The concept of GDP emerged from the devastation of the Great Depression and World War 2. Nobel-winning economist Simon Kuznets envisioned capturing all economic production by individuals, companies and the government in a single measure that would rise in prosperous times and sink in difficult ones. In his 1934 report, National Income, 1929-32 (bit.ly/45ol5cw) to the US Congress, he presented the original formulation of GDP.

During a speech by Kings College Londons Anand Menon on the likely decline in Britains GDP against the backdrop of the Brexit referendum in 2016, a woman yelled back, Thats your bloody GDP. Not ours. The media covered those two succinct sentences extensively.

On 19 July the Asian Development Bank euphorically released the economic growth estimates for Asian countries for 2023 and 2024: after the pause imposed

Economists have historically used GDP per capita to determine the richest country in the world, but that's misleading when you consider the tax havens effect.