Jan. 9, 2023
This episode is ready measuring “The Excellent Lifestyles.” Gross home product, or GDP, has been the longstanding indicator for comparing a rustic’s efficiency and prosperity. However there’s a rising motion to appear past GDP, which best accounts for items and products and services. Economists and different stakeholders argue the desire for a greater metric – person who considers well being, get right of entry to to schooling, happiness, and different dimensions of human welfare to offer a extra entire image.
Host Heather Howard, a professor at Princeton College and previous New Jersey Commissioner of Well being and Senior Products and services, discusses the seek for a greater yardstick with two visitors: Professor Ori Heffetz, a Princeton alum and visiting analysis pupil from Cornell and The Hebrew College of Jerusalem; and Yanchun Zhang, leader statistician on the United International locations Building Programme and proponent of the Human Building Index, another technique to assessing human welfare and score a rustic’s wellbeing.
Their dialog addresses the shortcomings of GDP (as a metric for nationwide wellbeing), the right way to assemble a extra correct and helpful index, and the necessary function of data-based policymaking.
Be informed extra about Ori Heffetz’s paintings:
Interview: Highlight on Ori Heffetz
Article: Measuring the Essence of the Excellent Lifestyles
Be informed extra about The Human Building Index.
Professor Heather Howard (left) with Professor Ori Heffetz and Dr. Yanchun Zhang
The Princeton Pulse Podcast is a manufacturing of Princeton College’s Heart for Well being and Wellbeing (CHW). The display is hosted via Heather Howard, a professor at Princeton College and previous New Jersey Commissioner of Well being and Senior Products and services, and produced via Aimee Bronfeld, with make stronger from Eden Teshome, Dan Quiyu, and Casey West. You’ll subscribe to The Princeton Pulse Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anyplace you revel in your favourite podcasts.
