Before Class on Tuesday, 09/21
Read: Lumen Learning “What is Gross Domestic Product?” and “Calculating GDP”
Watch (17:42): Pheko (2020)
In Class
Slides: Economic Well-being
Before Class on Friday, 09/24
Have tried all of Weekly Review 3
Material Links
Lumen Learning. “What is Gross Domestic Product?” https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-macroeconomics/chapter/what-is-gross-domestic-product/ & “Calculating GDP” https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-macroeconomics/chapter/calculating-gdp/
Pheko, Lebohang. (2020). “Feminist economics is everything. The revolution is now!” TEDxLytteltonWomen. 4 February. https://youtu.be/bDiOXjBK8xM
Optional: Fed Reserve of Dallas – Deflating Nominal Values to Real Values
1) In Feminist economics is everything. The revolution is now !, Lebohang Pheko says that huge multinationals and corporations that have more power over states influence our lives. Do you agree and disagree and why?
2) I learned that family’s economic stands as a reproach and a critique that suggests that there are many ways to be.
3) My favorite part is when Lebohang Pheko the two different principles that there are to feminist economics. My least favorite part was the white bracelet.
Some folks were asking about the origins of GDP — Where did it come from? When did we start using it? What what was it when it started? Here are some answers and! (be warned) they all have different versions of the story. Take what you like, leave the rest!
Bokat-Lindell, Spencer. (2021). “Do We Need to Shrink the Economy to Stop Climate Change?” New York Times. 16 September. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/opinion/degrowth-cllimate-change.html
Dickinson, Elizabeth. (2011). “GDP: a brief history.” Foreign Policy. 3 January. https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/01/03/gdp-a-brief-history/
Kapoor, Amit and Bibek Debroy. (2019). “GDP is Not a Measure of Human Well-Being.” Harvard Business Review. 4 October. https://hbr.org/2019/10/gdp-is-not-a-measure-of-human-well-being
(2007). Beyond GDP: Measuring progress, true wealth, and the well-being of nations. EU, The Club of Rome, WWF, OECD. November. [Conference Description] https://www.oecd.org/site/worldforum06/38433373.pdf