RESOURCE LIBRARY

Remarks of Robert F. Kennedy at the University of Kansas, March 18, 1968

If the GDP is Up, Why is America Down?, by Clifford Cobb, Ted Halstead, and Jonathan Rowe, The Atlantic Monthly, October 1995

The GDP Myth: Why "growth" isn't always a good thing, by Jonathan Rowe and Judith Silverstein, The Washington Monthly, March 1, 1999

Don't be Down on the Farm: How to preserve a national treasure, by Senator Byron Dorgan, The Washington Monthly, January/February 2000

John Edwards on Welfare and Poverty, 2004

Oil spill's bottom line hard to assess, by Bill Virgin, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 21, 2004

The Joyless Economy, by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, December 5, 2005

Another Accounting Scandal: GDP, by Alan Thein Durning, Tide Pool Originals: VOICES, February 25, 2006

For People and Planet: When will companies start accounting for environmental costs?, by Al Gore and David Blood, The Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2006

Seizing Intangibles for the GDP, by Louis Uchitelle, The New York Times, April 9, 2006

Economics discovers its feelings (PDF), The Economist, December 19, 2006

Happiness (and how to measure it) (PDF), The Economist, December 19, 2006

The Nonmarket Benefits of Nature: What Should Be counted In Green GDP? (PDF), by James W. Boyd, Resources For The Future, Summer 2006 - Issue Number 162

Income and Happiness: An Imperfect Link, by Robert H. Frank, The New York Times, March 9, 2008

Our three-decade recession: The American quality of life has been going downhill since 1975, by Robert Costanza, The Los Angeles Times, March 10, 2008

Does GDP really capture economy's health?, by Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor, March 12, 2008

For additional reading:

Nature's Numbers: Expanding the National Economic Accounts to Include the Environment, National Research Council, William D. Nordhaus and Edward C. Kokkelenberg, Editors, The National Academies Press, 1999, ISBN 0-309-07151-8

Beyond The Market: Designing Nonmarket Accounts for the United States, National Research Council, Katharine G. Abraham and Christophe Mackie, Editors, The National Acadamies Press, 2005, ISBN 0-309-09319-8