
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
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