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Make Your Own Indicator of Sustainable Economic Welfare

The focus of this interactive site is the comparison between GDP and welfare. It allows the user to select and balance several factors to produce a customized indicator. Java is used to plot a graph of this indicator over the second half of the Twentieth Century, with a plot of GDP for comparison. This page is part of the "measuring progress" section of the site, which has some background material and illustrative examples.... Show More

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