john courtneidge wrote:
>
> Dear Friends, all,
>
> Re the below
>
> The New Economics Foundation in London have been promoting such a thing: a
> bit of surfing might reveal the details.
>
> Expectedly, they say that GDP is up, but their indicator peaked at about
> 1955: pretty much as we might imagine!
[snip]
> > but are there any figures as to
> > what one might call a "Net National Product"?
[snip]
This leads us to the next computation in this process: the NEW (National
Effort Wasted) ratio = (1 - NNP / GNP). It is interesting to
speculate what kind of "progress" a rising NEW-ness ratio signifies....
+\brad mccormick
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