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How and why we are moving beyond GDP as a measure of human progress

  • Written by Tani Shaw, PhD Scholar, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
imageAccessible "green space" in cities is one of the things we will start measuring.Shutterstock

How we track our economy influences everything from government spending and taxes to home lending and business investment. In our series The Way We Measure, we’re taking a close look at economic indicators to better understand what’s going on.

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