“[Masood] explores ongoing efforts to develop a satisfactory substitute, [supplement or corollary to the Gross Domestic Product number] that would yield a more accurate picture of economic activity and its effects.”
From Cooper’s book review of The Great Invention: The Story of GDP and the Making (and Unmaking) of the Modern World, Ehsan Masood, Pegasus Books, 2016, 352 pp. as it appears in Foreign Affairs, Sept/Oct 2016 issue, 165, 166.
