Life Quote by Robert J. Gordon Download Open image ““GDP omits many dimensions of the quality of life that matter to people.”” — Robert J. Gordon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life Quality of life
We shouldn't measure everything in terms of GDP figures or economics. There is something called quality of life. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
“GDP doesn’t register, as Robert Kennedy put it, “the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, or the intelligence of our… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Besides being blind to lots of good things, the GDP also benefits from all manner of human suffering. Gridlock, drug abuse, adultery? Goldmines for… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP. — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
“GDP does not and cannot tell the whole story. Activities that do not require money changing hands are not counted as part of GDP—which… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
GDP excludes care work and other unpaid work, most of which falls to women and girls in rich and in poor countries alike. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
GDP has been a con perpetrated upon the poor of the world: a measure of economic activity and not of actual wealth. What it… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
The GDP approach doesn't address many aspects of human life: health, education, political liberty, religious liberty, employment opportunities. And these are not all that… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB -… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“What we need is a “dashboard” complete with an array of indicators to track the things that make life worthwhile – money and growth,… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Although advertising began in the late nineteenth century with the development of the first branded products, its true explosion came in the 1920s, when… — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
“both the Great Depression and World War II directly contributed to the Great Leap.” — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
“Modern humans first emerged about 100,000 years ago. For the next 99,800 years or so, nothing happened. Well, not quite nothing. There were wars,… — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
“Progress after 1970 continued but focused more narrowly on entertainment, communication, and information technology, in which areas progress did not arrive with a great… — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
“If the stock market continues to advance, we know that inequality will increase, for capital gains on equities accrue disproportionately to the top income… — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
“Compared to Canada, Japan, or any nation in western Europe, the United States combines by far the most expensive system with the shortest life… — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
“The post-2020 fiscal reckoning does not require higher payroll taxes or lower retirement benefits, as new sources of fiscal revenue are available from drug… — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
“Electric light, the first reliable internal combustion engine, and wireless transmission were all invented within the same three-month period at the end of 1879. Within” — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
“The economic revolution of 1870 to 1970 was unique in human history, unrepeatable because so many of its achievements could happen only once.” — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
“Morris Kleiner has calculated that the percentage of jobs subject to occupational licensing has expanded from 10 percent in 1970 to 30 percent in 2008.” — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
There are four headwinds that are just hitting the American economy in the face: They're demographics, education, debt and inequality. They're powerful enough to… — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
“The inexorable rise of inequality can be countered at the top by higher taxes on the highest earners who have captured so much more… — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
