At 06:18 PM 11/11/97 -0500, Henry Thomas wrote:
>I am somewhat surprised at such dribble. A number of governments have
>established quite impressive records over the past four to five years.
>They tend however to be unitary governments and not to be of the checks
>and balance variety cherished by American traditions. Work in both New
>Zealand and Australia has been quite impressive and recognized by
>IMF.
>For example see
>http://www.willamette.org/ipmn/
"quite impressive records" doing what? The web site doesn't say.
It is now widely recognized that the GDP is little more than a
measure of the conversion of natural capital into garbage.
Are New Zealand and Australia directing their economies to
optimize explicit measures of human welfare? If so, what are
the measures?
If not, what's your point?
Jay -- http://dieoff.org
