The Importance of Measurement in Economics

I don't care if it has an impact on productivity anyway. It's already close to free. Poverty in the United States and in much of the world, unfortunately not all of it, is at the problem. And so those revolutions, they have played out. I think as economists, we're not just accountants. Part of our job is accounting. But a lot of what you're talking about is non-intangible, non-measurable.