Development: Time to leave GDP behind

http://www.nature.com/news/development-time-to-leave-gdp-behind-1.14499

This new article in Nature might be of interest to colleagues.Development:
Time to leave GDP behind

Gross domestic product is a misleading measure of national success.
Countries should act now to embrace new metrics.

"Robert F. Kennedy once said that a country's gross domestic product (GDP)
measures “everything except that which makes life worthwhile”. The metric
was developed in the 1930s and 1940s amid the upheaval of the Great
Depression and global war. Even before the United Nations began requiring
countries to collect data to report national GDP, Simon Kuznets, the
metric's chief architect, had warned against equating its growth with
well-being..."