This article provides basic information regarding what is a GDP number and the logic behind its creation.
Articles on Gross Domestic Product
This article explains the importance of the GDP number in the current macro-economic framework.
This article explains the fallacy behind the idea that GDP must always rise. The article exposes how this concept is impossible and unsustainable and why it leads to dire consequences in the long term.
This article explains how the GDP system completely ignores the national debt being raised by the governments. It also explains how increasing national debt creates a state of inequality and leads to economic crisis in any nation.
This article explains how short term excessive borrowing creates a debt spiral for nations. It also explains how the most developed nations in the world are also in a debt spiral today.
This article provides an introduction to the concept of the components of GDP. It explains the logic behind these components and how they help in analysis and predicting the future of an economy.
This article lists down the alarming challenges that are being faced in the field of environmental sciences. It then also conducts an analysis to pinpoint how GDP system is responsible for this crisis.
This article exposes the fallacy that natural disasters are good for the economy. It also explains how the GDP system takes a lopsided view of the situation to arrive at this conclusion.
This article explains in detail as to why the fallacy that terrorism can be beneficial to the economy is indeed a fallacy.
This article explains in detail why war is bad for the economy. It also explains how certain corporations gain in war at the expense of the general population.
This article showcases the rise of Chinese ghost cities. It also explains how the hunger of ever increasing GDP has lead to the creation of these ghost cities.
This article explains the concept of Green GDP. It explains what is and what isnt included in the Green GDP and the challenges facing the Green GDP.
This article explains how the GDP systems focus on instant gratification and perpetual growth creates a scenario wherein the economy stops being economical!
This article provides a fresh look at India China debate. It explains how the Chinese economy is vastly superior at present. However, it also explains the reasons why Indian economy is likely to overtake them in the future.
This article examines the idea or the concept known as Universal Basic Income or UBI that envisages providing a basic income to all citizens to protect them and shield them from poverty and joblessness. Though UBI as a concept has received traction in recent years worldwide and in recent months, in India as well, there are both critics and supporters who argue the pros and cons of such a policy. These are some of the key themes that are discussed in this article.
This article explains the concept of family size and how it is related to economics. It describes the economic impacts of different types of families to demonstrate how some types of families are more likely than others to succeed in life.
This article explains the idea that social equality is more closely linked to a higher quality of life than a higher GDP. It explains all the benefits that accrue to countries which have a lower rate of income inequality.
This article explains the concept of a savings rate from the point of view of the individual as well as the state. It also explains why it is important that the United States government incentivize savings. The dire conditions of the American household savings and the measures that need to be taken to improve it have been discussed.
This article has a closer look at the economics of education. It also explains why the state is better off spending some amount of money on public education.
This article explains the political row that has erupted in India about revised GDP numbers. It explains why the GDP numbers were revised. Concepts such as base year and GDP back series have been simplified in this article.
This article explains the concept of GDP-B or GDP-benefits. It explains why a new GDP measure is required. The criticisms leveled against this measure have also been explained in this article.
This article explains how GDP system creates a fallacy that rising sickness and rising healthcare costs are good for the economy. It explains how economics is completely aligned with human welfare.
This article lists down the loopholes prevalent in the GDP system. It then uses these loopholes to come up with requirements from the new metric that should replace the GDP system.
This article explains what Trickle down Economics is as an Economic Theory and how it works and does not work in the real world. Using a mix of theory and real world examples, we discuss how it can be made to work and where it fails provided there are distortions. We also argue that the Pandemic has made many question this theory and suggest some alternatives to it.
This article explains the concept of broken window fallacy. This concept is instrumental in debunking the fallacy that war has a positive impact on the economy.
This article explains in detail, why war is not good for the economy. It also explains how GDP counts the additional production as a result of war but fails to recognize the destruction caused by it.
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