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Digitally Disrupted GDP

Geoff Riley

9th March 2016

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Gross Domestic Product: three words that can decide elections, influence political decisions, and determine whether a country can keep borrowing or will be thrown into recession. Economist Diane Coyle explains in this lecture given at the Oxford Martin School delivered in February 2016 why GDP is increasingly inappropriate for the twenty-first-century economy.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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