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Complements to GDP: Measuring Freedom, Health and Education through time

Complements to GDP: Measuring Freedom, Health and Education through time

Update: 2024-03-15
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Today we meet with and discuss the recent work of Prof. Leandro Prados de la Escosura. We speak about the concept of economic liberty and discuss whether improvements in measures of health and education map on to GDP per capita over time.....it's not that simple. With new metrics developed by Leandro, we reconsider the standard narratives with examples from different periods where well-being and GDP per capita appear to diverge. Using his newly developed data, Leandro joins the economic inequality debate and considers whether global equity in well-being has followed a similar path to the distribution of income story.

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Complements to GDP: Measuring Freedom, Health and Education through time

Complements to GDP: Measuring Freedom, Health and Education through time