The GDP paradox

By J. Bergh. 2009

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Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Assessing the degrowth discourse: A review and analysis of academic degrowth policy proposals (2017, background): “Degrowth also goes beyond the a-growth perspective, in which political decisions should be agnostic to growth (van den Bergh and Kallis, 2012), what implies ignoring GDP as an indicator of social welfare due to the various problems associated with it (van den Bergh, 2009).”
Beyond GDP: Classifying Alternative Measures for Progress (2011, background): “Van den Bergh (2009) can be consulted for a comprehensive review of the criticisms on GDP.”
Social enterprises and non-market capitals: a path to degrowth? (2013, background): “Various reasons have been given for this view (van den Bergh, 2009; Johanisova), tim.crabtree@ cz (E. Fra nková).”
Measuring progress in the degrowth transition to a steady state economy (2012, background): “As discussed in Section 2.1, GDP is a poor indicator of social welfare, and its continued use represents a “serious information failure” (van den Bergh, 2009).”
In defence of degrowth (2011, background): “Growth is not an option, but an imperative stemming from the structure of basic institutions, such as the use of private property as a collateral (van Griethuysen, 2010), debt, interest rate and credit (Loehr, 2010; Douthwaite, 2010), and the grow-or-die competition of private enterprises for…”
The economics of degrowth (2012, background): “GDP is a bad indicator of social welfare (van den Bergh, 2009).”
Growth, A-Growth or Degrowth to Stay within Planetary Boundaries? (2012, background): “This is so for several reasons (van den Bergh 2009).”
Using Nighttime Satellite Imagery as a Proxy Measure of Human Well-Being (2013, background): “explicitly recognized as a determining factor of social welfare [1].”
Environment versus growth — A criticism of "degrowth" and a plea for "a-growth" (2011, background): “Less value assigned to GDP will mean judging environmental and climate policies as less costly ormore beneficial to our society (van den Bergh, 2010a).”
Externality or sustainability economics (2010, background): “These allow for studying previously unattended policy instruments like status taxes, prizes/awards for good behavior/initiatives and information diffusion (Nannen and van den Bergh, 2010; Safarzynska and van den Bergh, 2009).”
Fossil fuel depletion and socio-economic scenarios: An integrated approach (2014, background): “However, GDP was not designed to measure social welfare (e.g. (van den Bergh, 2009)); and research with welfare indicators show not only that, above a certain level, there is no link between higher GDP per capita and subjective wellbeing, but reductions in GDP per capita may be welfare enhancing…”
Using eco-efficiency as an indicator for sustainable urban development: A case study of Chinese provincial capital cities (2014, background): “A possible explanation is that we chose GDP as the only “desirable output”, but GDP has been severely criticised as not adequately capturing human welfare and progress (van den Bergh, 2009).”