What We Need Now Is a Shift in Priorities

There are 90 countries around the world that conduct time use surveys. But even when this data is collected, it's still not seen as integral to national accounting. I think what we want to move towards is a system where the conventional national accounts are a satellite to the larger accounts instead of clinging to the old accounts. The trouble is, there's not much agreement on exactly what we should replace GDP with. And then these people come along like me and say, wait a minute, they're wrong, you gotta change them. It was really the shock of World War II that made an international agreement on GDP possible.