Explore how asset price inflation differs from GDP growth and why rising stocks or housing markets may not indicate true economic health.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. James Broughel is an economist focused on the economics of regulation. GDP is the total market value of all final goods and ...

In the middle of the eighteenth century, the physician-turned-economist François Quesnay devised a quantitative model of the economy, among the first of its kind and a precursor to present-day GDP.

United States flag on bar chart concept of economic recovery with stock market down and up. Concept of business improving after crisis such as Covid-19 or other catastrophe as economy and businesses ...

Thomas Tunstall, research director for UTSA's Institute for Economic Development, makes a case for looking beyond GDP when thinking about economic well-being. Almost everyone is familiar with gross ...

[E]conomists are at this moment called upon to say how to extricate the free world from the serious threat of accelerating inflation which, it must be admitted, has been brought about by policies ...

BEIJING, March 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- When it comes to ecological and environmental protection, it is essential to take into account the overall interests, the long-term interests, and the ...