Science can take the lead in making better measures of economic growth

You have full access to this article via your institution. Harmful impacts of greenhouse-gas emissions, such as those from transport, are not accounted for in GDP. Credit: RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post/Getty “Growth at any cost leaves us all poorer.” Those were the words of United Nations secretary-general António Guterres last week at the launch of a landmark report, Counting What Counts , which he commissioned from a team of researchers and policymakers ( www.un.org/beyondgdp ). …