GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History

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Measuring Regional Economic Resilience across Europe: Operationalizing a complex concept (2016, background): “Employment is a more meaningful measure than GDP as it counts the number of people employed in a region and is less prone to revision (see Coyle, 2014).”
Shifting horizons in local and regional development (2017, background): “Since the early work of Kuznets – notwithstanding his own doubts about its value in this respect – national income growth has been the main measure of economic progress (Coyle, 2014).”
Redefining green growth within planetary boundaries (2018, background): “This is largely due to greater productivity potential in improving agriculture and manufacturing at the time, relative to productivity improvements in the services sectors, which now make up about two-thirds of Western economies’ GDP (Coyle, 2015).”
Research On Degrowth (2018, unknown): “Studies vary from popular critiques of the “Gross Domestic Problem” (21–23), to analyses of specific aspects of the internationalization of GDP accounting (see 24; 25, chapter 1), to stories of the making and contribution of GDP (26, 27).”
The Post-growth Challenge: Secular Stagnation, Inequality and the Limits to Growth (2019, background): “The pursuit of economic growth has been a defining feature of the global economy for well over half a century (Coyle, 2014; Philipsen, 2015; Victor and Dolter, 2017).”