The Trouble with Economic Data: Flawed Metrics, Flawed Decisions
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You're listening to The Michael Shermer Show. Today's guest, Diane Coyle, is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. She's the author of Cogs and Monsters, What Economics Is and What It Should Be. All right, we'll get into that maybe a little bit. GDP, a brief but affectionate history, Markets, State and People, Economics for Public Policy, The Soulful Science, What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters.
And her new book, here it is, The Measure of Progress, Counting What Really Matters. We have an excerpt from this book coming out in the next issue of Skeptic on the health and wealth of nations. I mean, these are really important topics. Diane, nice to see you. Thanks for coming on to talk to me.
Thank you for the invitation to join me today. So what's your story? How did you get into economics? What's your background to that? What drew you to that subject?
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