Senate hearing: GDP fails to measure progress
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Martin Collier: We are what we measure and GDP does not measure what we value
Wednesday March 19th, 2008
Martin Collier is founding Executive Director and a Managing Board Member of the Glaser Progress Foundation, created by Rob Glaser, CEO and Chairman of RealNetworks. At the Foundation, Collier oversees initiatives to: create new and better measures of national progress; support independent and progressive media; and strengthen the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He is the Treasurer for Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media, a Board Member of ProgressNow and FUSE and an Advisory Board Member of Free Press. He is a past Board Member of the National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture. Before joining the Foundation, Collier was an analyst for the Washington State Senate and an attorney focused on environmental and consumer interest class action litigation.
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oh token black man, we meet again.
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How about a QoL measure? Quality of Life! Growth vs sacrifice vs enviro impact vs human rights vs health etc etc etc.
FattKidd 3 years ago 3
You could do that but how do you measure quality of life in digits?
AbtinX 3 years ago 2