我们以命理学信徒般的狂热来对待它。当它下降时,我们会认为严重的社会后果将随之而来。宏观经济政策的制定与它如影随形。但现在,经济统计的鼻祖——国内生产总值(GDP)——正沦为遭受抨击的对象。一大批经济学家、心理学家和社会学家纷纷表示,GDP并不能精确地衡量经济表现,它分散了决策者的注意力,使之忽略了衡量社会福利的更重要的评估标准。 We treat it with cultist-like fanaticism. When it goes down, we will think that serious social consequences will follow. The formulation of macroeconomic policies goes hand in hand with it. But now, the originator of economic statistics, gross domestic product (GDP), is now being attacked. A large number of economists, psychologists, and sociologists have stated that GDP cannot accurately measure economic performance. It distracts the attention of policy makers and makes it overlook the more important criteria for measuring social welfare.