Re: HDI, GNP and the PPP factor

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Economics is all about measuring in measurable.  I was reading this week about
"scientific racism" in Victorian England, where people tried to develop mathematical
measures of how close various peoples came to being Africans.  These measures showed
the Irish were almost Black.  Such matters were taken very seriously and the time.
If we were gone to try to make some sort of quantitative measure of a human
development index, I think I will try to get a handle on how people at the bottom
fared rather than looking at averages.



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Michael Perelman
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California State University
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