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“Interpersonal Connectedness” One Factor in Metric to Replace GDP

Michael Lee Stallard

In “ The Rise and Fall of GDP ,&# that appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Jon Gertner describes this effort. In “ The Rise and Fall of GDP ,&# that appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Jon Gertner describes this effort. Gertner writes about the U.S. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Fixing the World's Infrastructure Problems

Harvard Business Review

In Jakarta, from 2005-2009, the number of cars rose by 22% annually, while the distance of usable roads actually declined (PDF). of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries. trillion a year, on infrastructure over the next 18 years.

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There Will Be Oil, But At What Price?

Harvard Business Review

We counter that managers who would see their businesses survive the next few decades of extreme economic volatility will need to develop some literacy about oil and its complex relationships with the economy. We have ample historical evidence that when petroleum expenditures reach 5% of GDP, recession typically follows.

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How One CEO Grows Her Business with Feeling

Harvard Business Review

What do you think causes millions of people to miss work and school in developing economies? In South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, another long-term study found that "more equal education between men and women could have led to nearly 1 percent higher annual per capita GDP growth" in each country. Lack of childcare?

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Whose Capitalism is it Anyway?

Harvard Business Review

On the national level there's sense that if we're not producing more GDP, we're losing a competition of some kind," says Chris. There's this complaint: 'I'd love to think and manage for the long term, but Wall Street won't let me.' Meanwhile, from 2004 to 2009, emerging economies accounted for almost all of the world's GDP growth."

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Can the U.S. Become a Base for Serving the Global Economy?

Harvard Business Review

In 2009, they accounted for 24.4% GDP while undertaking 40.9% private-sector research and development. And, through linkages including supply chains (in 2009 multinationals purchased about $7 trillion in intermediate inputs from companies in America), multinationals enhance the performance of companies throughout the U.S.

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Spain Is Now Making Ireland's Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

And yet in the run up to the collapse in 2007, the combined asset footprint of the three main Irish banks was around 400 percent of GDP. percent over the ten years of the construction bubble, while loans to developers constituted nearly 50 percent of national output by 2007. percent in the first quarter of 2009 alone.