We Can't Eat GDP

What does GDP - gross domestic product - fail to account for? When we really start to dig into the numbers, we find that this long-held standard for a Country's "success" ignores many of the positives (and negatives) that determine a population's welfare and well-being. But new possibilities are already out there. Lorenzo Fioramonti shares exciting ideas for new measurements of progress, and what they can tell us about ourselves, and where we're going.

http://www.dailygood.org/story/1105/we-can-t-eat-gdp-global-trends-on-alternative-indicators-lorenzo-fioramonti/