In business especially, the number you measure and reward is the number you optimize. If recession is defined solely as GDP growth and that's all economic policy-makers care about, jobless recoveries will continue to happen, with their attendant growth in income inequality.
We need a new definition.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Wrong kind of growth
Labels:
economy,
new york times,
peter goodman,
recession,
unemployment
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