"Creative destruction can apply to economic concepts as well. And this downturn offers an excellent opportunity to get rid of one that has long outlived its usefulness: gross domestic product. G.D.P. is one measure of national income, of how much wealth Americans make, and it’s a deeply foolish indicator of how the economy is doing. It ought to join buggy."
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Eric Zencey, in G.D.P. R.I.P., The New York Times, 9 August 9, 2009
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Eric Zencey
(1953–July 1, 2019) was an American environmental writer
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