{"id":269,"date":"2017-05-05T19:57:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T19:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.duke.edu\/policy360\/?p=269"},"modified":"2021-06-17T21:38:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T21:38:16","slug":"ep-46-how-gdp-came-to-rule-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/policy360.org\/2017\/05\/05\/ep-46-how-gdp-came-to-rule-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep. 46 How GDP Came to Rule the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has become the universal yardstick of progress. GDP judges the value of goods and services produced inside a country\u2019s borders. But the number has a big problem: it only judges output. More car production for example, would seem on the surface as a success, but at what cost?<\/p>\n<p>Dirk Philipsen&#8217;s book is <a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/10420.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Little Big Number, How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to do About It<\/a>. Philipsen is a faculty member at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/321160563&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Sanford School @ Duke\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/sanford-school-duke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanford School @ Duke<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"How GDP Came to Rule the World\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/sanford-school-duke\/how-gdp-came-to-rule-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How GDP Came to Rule the World<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/policy-360\/id1170662136?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to Policy 360.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Music: Impromptu in Blue by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/incompetech.com\/\">Kevin MacLeod<\/a>\u00a0is licensed under a<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/2.0\/\">\u00a0Creative Commons Attribution license<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/policy360.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/05\/Ep-46-GDP-Dirk-Phillipsen.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the transcript<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has become the universal yardstick of progress. 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