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What's wrong with GDP as a measure of progress, and how do we fix it?

Dates:27 February 2018
Times:18:30 - 19:45
What is it:Evening event
Organiser:Policy@Manchester
How much:Free
Who is it for:University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public, Post 16
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the nation’s headline economic indicator, and often used shorthand as a measure of progress. But GDP has been criticised for many things, such as not taking environmental degradation, household work or inequality into account. Some also argue that GDP is struggling to capture the more intangible ‘Google’ economy that we now inhabit.

Can GDP be improved to make it a better measure of national progress? Or do we need to get rid of it entirely and replace it with something else?

This public event, run jointly by Policy@Manchester and the Royal Statistical Society, brings together a leading panel of experts to discuss these questions.

The Panel, which will be chaired by Executive Director of the Royal Statistical Society Hetan Shah, includes:

  • Professor Diane Coyle

Professor of Economics at The University of Manchester and joint first place winner of this year's Indigo Prize for Economics.

  • Professor Jonathan Haskel

Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London and joint first place winner of this year's Indigo Prize for Economics.

  • David Pilling

Africa editor of the Financial Times and author of new book ‘The Growth Delusion’

  • Claudia Wells

Assistant Director at the Office for National Statistics, who leads work on the Sustainable Development Goals

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