Yeah - it is telling that economics criticism rarely includes any alternative model and if it does tends to be meaningless feel-good inane fluff like "Gross Happiness Product". The same sort of woo as "alternative medicine" calling working medicine allopathic as a slur. What do they call economics which actually work more or less? Neoliberalism.
The reoccurring criticisms of GDP are fundamentally clueless as complaining that gasoline poisons you when you drink it, therefore energy density per volume or mass is invalid. GDP is still power but the things they complain about are applications. The whole point of trade is that you can convert funds from like gold or tourism to tractors and medicine.
Frankly they tend to be childish tantrums calling economists evil for not reflecting their sacred imperatives of how they believe the world should be.
The reoccurring criticisms of GDP are fundamentally clueless as complaining that gasoline poisons you when you drink it, therefore energy density per volume or mass is invalid. GDP is still power but the things they complain about are applications. The whole point of trade is that you can convert funds from like gold or tourism to tractors and medicine.
Frankly they tend to be childish tantrums calling economists evil for not reflecting their sacred imperatives of how they believe the world should be.