Dethroning the Goddess of GNP: Environmentalism, International Development, and the Origins of Ecological Economics


May 21 2018 80 mins  
During the 1960s and 1970s, a wide range of environmental activists began searching for new ways to understand and measure development. They believed that the pursuit of economic growth as a policy goal and the reliance on quantitative measurements such as Gross National Product (GNP) ignored the broader social and ecological impacts of this process.