This is an excellent thread: While focused specifically on Canada, the principle of why GDP per capita is not the whole story on economic health is generally applicable.
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Jim Stanford
Certain partisans have been citing Canada's performance on per capita GDP as evidence of a supposed 'lost decade' and economic mismanagement. In @irpp.org's Policy Options, I deconstruct this arbitrary and misleading statistic, in two parts. #cdnecon #cdnpoli. /2
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