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What we stand for: Qualitativism | 18 comments (18 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
GDP is not inaccurate ... (none / 1)
... its just not the score of the game.

Its like watching the tachometer to tell what speed you are going, without knowing what gear you are in. Its just a measure of total spending on newly produced stuff. Its not a measure of economic productivity, its not a measure of net new real wealth, ...

... someone using GDP to assess standard of living is like a nurse trying to measure my Blood Pressure with a thermometer. Its inability to do that is no failing of the thermometer ~ but of the nurse using the wrong tool for the job.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sun Oct 3rd, 2010 at 01:38:50 AM EST
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Re: GDP is not inaccurate ... (none / 0)
Or you could read what JakeS says right down there, as I obviously had not yet done.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sun Oct 3rd, 2010 at 01:41:46 AM EST
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What we stand for: Qualitativism | 18 comments (18 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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