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Robert F. Kennedy challenges Gross Domestic Product ... a famous speech from 1968

Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

Robert F. Kennedy challenges Gross Domestic Product

Forty years ago, Robert F. Kennedy challenged the basic way we measure progress and well-being in America. Today, the Glaser Progress Foundation is raising the same questions through a new medium. The Seattle-based foundation released a new web video marking the anniversary of a famous speech in which Kennedy said the Gross Domestic Product counts 'everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.'