Brian McAndrews asked: > The amazing thing about this crime is that it increases England's > GDP. And all of the good work done by stay at home care givers > doesn't. Marilyn Waring made this point about the Exxon Valdez > environmental disaster. Who defined GDP this way and why?
According to Brian's FW posting of 8-Jan-2002: < Waring explains that the GDP was a system of accounting created by < the British for the World War II war effort, to quantify the monetary < value of work. As Steinem explains: "There was thought only of winning < [the war], not of accounting for the human or ecological costs of war" What a surprise that the GDP was invented in the land of Manchester capitalism and TurdWay... Chris
