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Beyond Growth: Towards a New Approach

The OECD has published a new report by Michael Jacobs, prepared for New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC), September 2020.

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FORUM NEW ECONOMY

PUBLISHED

11. SEPTEMBER 2020

READING TIME

1 MIN

Jacobs sets out what can be done to address the profound challenges and problems which confront us today, arguing that it requires a new set of goals and measures of economic and social progress; new frameworks of economic analysis; and new kinds of policies. The report has been written for the OECD (on behalf of the Secretary-General’s Advisory Group on a New Growth Narrative) was published on September 11, 2020.

The full and final report can be downloaded — here.

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Do we need a whole new understanding of economic growth? What would be a real alternative? How viable are alternatives to GDP when it comes to measuring prosperity? These and other more fundamental challenges are what this section is about.

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