Re:A Caltech Nobel laureate celebrates his 100th birthday, t...
by Retric on Saturday July 22, 2023 @11:52PM
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Be careful extrapolating macro scale effects into the micro scale. GDP is a function of a huge number of things and its correlation with positive outcomes doesn’t mean everything that boosts GDP is a net positive. Many forms of economic inefficiency end up boosting GDP.
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-vs-happiness