There's an interesting survey of "alternatives to GNP" on the web
page for my institute -- www.tufts.edu\gdae
On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Douglas P. Wilson wrote:
> Caspar Davis wrote:
>
> > I assume you know about the various Genuine Progress Indicators that
> > have been proposed at various levels of the political hierarchy. ...
>
> Well, I've certainly read and heard a lot about the problems of the GDP, but
> I'm not up to data on alternatives. I used a search engine and found quite
> a few pages about GPI but no hard data.
>
> > If you need steering to such data, I can help some.
>
> Well, yes, Caspar, I could use a bit of help. I downloaded the GIF file from
> Jay's dieoff site showing the GPI, figuring I could in a pinch turn that graph
> back into numbers, but I'd much rather have the numbers as numbers, and
> the formulae they used to get the numbers would be nice too, if possible.
>
> dpw
>
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