Outline of Topics  A Troubled Marriage: Microeconomics & Macroeconomics  Gross National Product  GNP and Total Welfare  Defensive Expenditures and Natural Capital Depletion  Sustainable Income  Alternative Measures of Welfare: MEW and ISEW  Beyond Consumption-Based Indicators of Welfare  Relative Wealth and Well-Being  Human Needs and Welfare  Max-Neef's Matrix of Human Needs  Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel Prize Econ btw) : Adam Smith's Invisible Hand is a Myth http://www.youtube.com/watch v=9qjvwQrZmpk&feature=related I love the Yogi Berra quotes: We may be lost but we're making great time
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