It's high time for economics to overcome its obsession with GDP and move towards better indicators in the pursuit of a general wellbeing, says Jeffrey Sachs, well known economist, director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Professor at Columbia University.

Wiki on Jeffrey Sachs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs

https://twitter.com/jeffdsachs?lang=en

https://csd.columbia.edu/

https://www.unsdsn.org/about-us

https://sdgs.un.org/goals

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Smith_Kuznets

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/books/adults-in-the-room/

More Future Histories episodes on the topic:

https://castbox.fm/episode/S01E31---Daniel-E.-Saros-on-Digital-Socialism-and-the-Abolition-of-Capital-(Part-1)-id2228584-id280515245?country=en;

https://castbox.fm/episode/S01E32---Daniel-E.-Saros-on-Digital-Socialism-and-the-Abolition-of-Capital-(Part-2)-id2228584-id286523325?country=us

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