&gt; The people who use GDP are aware of this. The thing is that no one has come up with anything better.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, I too cannot think of anything better. And good points about all the other things not captured by GDP.<p>But given that GDP is a terrible measure of productivity,
shouldn&#x27;t the result be: We don&#x27;t know how to measure productivity on a nation scale so let&#x27;s stop pretending that GDP meaningfully measures it?<p>Thanks for the book recommendation. For anyone else who&#x27;s interested in checking it out I found chapter 1 available here:
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