Why gdp is no longer ffp (fit for purpose)

davidgoodhart.substack.com Gross domestic product (GDP), the most widely used measure of economic health and progress, is no longer fit for purpose, says David Goodhart. It “almost comically fails to

If the most prized commodity in the 20th century was oil, in the 21st it is data. It is both our humdrum reality and our anxious obsession. It tracks everything from which online advertisements we are

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Speculation has reached fever pitch about the contents of the government’s forthcoming Autumn Budget. This follows the assessment of the highly respected NIESR (National Institute of Economic and Soci

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