changing how we measure progress is key to tackling a world in crisis – three leading experts
- Written by Paul Allin, Visiting Professor in Statistics, Imperial College London
It’s an odd quirk of history that, on the first day of his ill-fated presidential campaign in March 1968, Robert F Kennedy chose to talk to his audience about the limitations of gross domestic product* (GDP) – the world’s headline indicator of economic progress.
It seems stranger still that, despite the power of that iconic...
