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user-inactivated  ·  4010 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Less Is More: Rogue Economists Champion Prosperity without Growth

The problem is that for a politician, which would get the most votes, being the politician that keeps the prosperity stagnant, or the politician that "improved" the economy?





JakobVirgil  ·  4010 days ago  ·  link  ·  

we need to use better metrics than GDP and growth to talk about how good an economy is. I propose GINI score and Homocide rate.

user-inactivated  ·  4009 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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