Gross domestic product is a misleading measure of national success (2014)
It's hard to overstate how terrible this idea is.<p>GDP is a concrete measure that is difficult to fake.  Once you start arguing about the economic value of volunteering, divorce, income inequality, and crime -- you've opened the door to never being able to trust GDP again.<p>Should we create new metrics to track progress?  Sure.  Should we stop tracking GDP?  No way.