Gaia's Maverick

Where Environmentalism and Capitalism Meet.

Money isn't everything.

Sure, money fixes poor people problems. However, if money could solve rich people problems, they wouldn't be problems. The would is far more complex than just exchange of currency. This article talks about how the rise in GDP (gross domestic product) may be bad for us, the citizens.

Ecologial Economics: Beyond GDP

Full article
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800913001584

Reference
(Kubiszewski et al., 2013)

Kubiszewski, I., Costanza, R., Franco, C., Lawn, P., Talberth, J., Jackson, T., & Aylmer, C. (2013). Beyond GDP: Measuring and achieving global genuine progress. African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition, and Development : AJFAND, 93(5), 57–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.04.019

This article is open source, so hopefully I haven't made any IP infringements.