Course: Global Prosperity Beyond GDP

This article will take you through some of the alternative measures of progress that have been put forward by various organisations. They are part of the turning tide against GDP-centric …

We have reached the end of Week 1, and now have a clearer perspective on what GDP is and why it has for so long been used as an indicator …

Government is in a difficult situation, as previously, social stability has depended on economic stability. This means that governments feel the need to pursue economic growth above all else. However, …

In this video, Marc Stears, Director of the New Economics Foundation, describes his view that economic disempowerment has led to a “crisis in control” whereby a small group make economically-driven …

In this video, Professor Henrietta Moore explains the concept of the democratic deficit, and asks how the way we think about the economy may be linked to the growth of …

In this video, we hear from Kate Raworth – an economist who examines the economic mindset – for the first time in the course. In her 2017 book ‘Doughnut Economics: …

Here we hear from Professor Tim Jackson, one of the pioneers of the prosperity conversation and a key contributor to this course. He wrote Prosperity without Growth, initially published in …

In this video, economist Diane Coyle takes us through the origins of GDP as a measure of economic growth and what this should mean for our assessment of it today. …

Clearly, prosperity means a lot of things to a lot of different people. Our idea of what constitutes a ‘good’ life depends on the life we already lead, our beliefs, …