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Genuine wealth: building economies of well-being.(Essay)

Robert Kennedy, in one of his last public speeches in 1968, noted that "Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things." He went on with a stinging critique of the primary measure of economic progress--the Gross National Product (GNP) or Gross Domestic Product (GDP)--stating unequivocally that it inappropriately counts environmental pollution, advertising for cigarettes, the building of weapons of mass destruction, and the cost of clearing our highways of the carnage from auto crashes as "economic progress" yet fails to account for the strength of our marriages, the joy of our children's ...

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