In great news this week, Vermont became the first state to legislate the adoption and use of an alternative to GDP called the Vermont Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI). While Vermont isn’t the first ...

Pollina says we need to measure more than just what we make and consume. “We can’t just measure economic activity; we need to know if it is fair and sustainable. We should include the cost of poverty ...

GDP growth is up. Time to celebrate! Then GDP growth is down again. Time to panic? These gyrations aren’t uncommon, and we have just been through one. A few weeks ago, President Biden boasted about ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Experts in happiness and wellbeing from around the United States are set to gather in Burlington for a conference devoted to judging social progress - or gross national ...

In Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Deep Thought informs Loonquawl that the meaning of life is 42. Loonquawl exclaims, “Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million ...

A lot of people argue that “GDP is a bad indicator.” It’s not; it’s a very incomplete indicator. Think of baseball statistics. A player’s batting average tells you an important fact about a ...

"What you measure is what you get," said Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. Soon Vermont may measure its economic well-being somewhat differently. This week, the Vermont legislature sent a ...

The second annual Slow Living Summit was held in Brattleboro this past week. Featuring such presenters as David Orr of Oberlin College, Woody Tasch, the founder of the organization Slow Money, and ...

A number of China and technology issues in the queue (plus frogs), but for the moment, a few extra references on the "does GDP really matter anyway?" front. Previously here and here. 1) A group in ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BURLINGTON (AP) - Experts in happiness and wellbeing from around the United States are set to gather in Burlington for a conference devoted to judging ...