Money For the Rest of Us

Is GDP the Best Measure of Happiness and Well-being?


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What factors determine the well-being of an individual or nation and why gross domestic product is an inadequate measure of prosperity.

Topics covered include:

  • Evidence many Americans are poorer than before the Great Recession.
  • Why life expectancy in the U.S. is falling.
  • How satisifiedare U.S. citizens.
  • What is GDP and why is the U.S. Bureau of Economics developing a new methodology
  • What are the flaws with GDP and why does it fall short in measuring well-being.
  • Which countries around the world are the most and least happy and what are the factors that contribute to that happiness.
  • Why were U.S. founding fathers worried about too many luxuries.
  • How the U.S. in the 19th century followed the same manufacturing model that China does today.

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