Ending Poverty: Today or Forever? 78 implied HN points • 06 Nov 23 🌍 World Politics Poverty Economics Development Social Issues Aid Giving money to extremely poor people can help end poverty for that year. Claims about economic effects of giving money need strong evidence. The idea that giving money will decrease poverty in the long term is not well supported.
Perhaps I treated you too harshly, GDP 216 implied HN points • 02 Nov 22 GDP in democracies accurately reflects economic growth activity Dictatorships often manipulate GDP to exaggerate economic growth The Better Life Index is a better measure of well-being than GDP
Some Technical Problems With Measuring Happiness 196 implied HN points • 09 Feb 22 Happiness is hard to measure since people have different definitions and memories of what it is. Use experience sampling or day reconstruction to tackle memory issues in measuring happiness. Clear definitions, similar analysis categories, and balanced questions can help overcome problems in measuring happiness.
Acronyms for Happiness, part 1 1 HN point • 20 Mar 22 GDP was not designed to measure economic well-being, and its use for this purpose has limitations MEW introduced adjustments to GDP to account for household labor, leisure, and inequality, but still had challenges in valuation ISEW and GPI attempted to combine welfare and sustainability but faced criticism for merging two distinct concepts in one metric