For Economics, p.202, q.1-5

1. What does Mark Anielski mean when he says that the GDP's ideal economic hero is a "chain-smoking terminal cancer patient going through an expensive divorce whose car is totalled in a 20-car pile up"?

2. What do you think Anielski means by the phrase "a depletion of the social capital upon which an economy depends"? Do you agree with him?

3. What are some examples of negative costs that GPI would take into account?

4. What are some examples of factors that would be considered pluses?