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There is now a fast-growing list of alternative metrics, including the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare and the Genuine Progress Indicator, both of which set out to correct GDP for social and ecological costs. And this new thinking is beginning to trickle into policy too. New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern captured headlines in 2019

La majorité de la population mondiale ne vit ni dans des pays à faible revenu ni dans des pays à haut revenu, mais dans des pays à revenu moyen. Pour un esprit binaire, cette catégorie n’existe pas. Or c’est là que vit 75 % de l’humanité, pile là où est censé se trouver le fossé. Autrement dit : il n’y a pas de fossé.

It is entirely possible for the wealth of every single person bar one to go down, while GDP growth goes up. In fact, something not too dissimilar to this seems to have happened in Europe and the United States since the Global Financial Crisis. GDP keeps on climbing while median measures of income, disposable income, assets, net financial wealth,

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According to some measures, Russia is one of the most unequal countries in the world, with 87 percent of wealth concentrated in the hands of the richest 10 percent of people.

Brynjolfsson, Erik, et al. (2019), GDP-B. Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods in the Digital Economy, UNSW Business School Research Paper Forthcoming