Leandro Prados de la Escosura, "Human Development and the Path to Freedom: 1870 to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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What's the Problem With GDP?
I think we don't have many pieces where we can reflect on how the institutionality of academia merges and so it's great that we're having the chance to talk about this. I'll tell you that, for someone who finds this book might end up thinking that I'm against GDP. Of course not. I'll spend 10 years for sure but probably more than closer to 20 years working on GDP reconstruction. Because one of the things that you know, you're wrong that in American experience is that what India,. the other action sphere is taking for granted that someone built the series here if you want to have any series about anything you have to start from scratch. So there were important pioneers
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