New White Paper: Beyond GDP: A Balanced Economic Dashboard for Human Flourishing

I have published a new white paper introducing the Balanced Economic Dashboard (BED), a multidimensional framework for assessing economic performance in relation to human flourishing.

 

Rather than rejecting GDP, the framework situates it within a broader dashboard that also considers equity, opportunity, ecological and social costs, resilience, economic complexity, psychological well-being, and long-term viability. The paper also introduces the concepts of Empty GDP and Harmful GDP, adaptive weighting, and context-sensitive pathways toward flourishing.

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