Measuring What Matters: Moving Beyond GDP

• 作者: JAMES BRENDAN BOLGER
• 来源期刊: 今日中国:英文版
• 学科: 其他
• 关键词: GROSS NATIONAL Product GDP
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（5）
• 页码范围: 14-16
• 页数: 3页
• 分类号: Z

摘要

JUST over 50 years ago, Robert F. Kennedy in a speech he delivered at the University of Kansas expressed his concerns about the limits of using Gross National Product to guide policy decisions. In his own words:“Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage... It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl…“Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play... It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.”