Gross Domestic Problem: The Politics Behind the World's Most Powerful Number

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Research On Degrowth (2018, unknown): “Today GDP is not just an economic statistic, but a means to organize society on the assumption that only markets create wealth (21).”
Modelling and measuring sustainable wellbeing in connection with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2016, background): “cades and the problems with using GDP as an indicator of national wellbeing are well known (Stiglitz et al., 2009; Fioramonti, 2013; Fleurbaey and Blanchet, 2013; Costanza et al., 2014b).”
Dependency redux: why Africa is not rising (2016, background): “Everything else (e.g. environmental sustainability, social justice, poverty eradication) were sacrificed on the altar of economic growth’ (Fioramonti 2013, 51).”
Twenty years of ecosystem services: How far have we come and how far do we still need to go? (2017, background): “The ‘Beyond GDP’ process thus becomes a focal point to change the perspective on economic growth and put ES at the core of the framework rather than at the margins (Fioramonti, 2013; Fioramonti, 2017b).”
Socially sustainable degrowth as a social–ecological transformation: repoliticizing sustainability (2015, background): “The objective of degrowth is not to reduce GDP, an arbitrary indicator (Fioramonti 2013; Philipsen 2015), but to increase social justice and ecological sustainability.”