{"id":22656,"date":"2016-05-09T09:49:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T13:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=22656"},"modified":"2016-05-09T09:49:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T13:49:47","slug":"our-mismeasured-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/05\/09\/our-mismeasured-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Mismeasured Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The New York Times<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/07\/opinion\/our-mismeasured-economy.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Our Mismeasured Economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To develop a sustainable growth path, we should heed the business adage: You get what you measure. Fixing the measurement problems surrounding government activities is a good place to start.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This article does a wonderful job of identifying one of the reasons we have allowed ourselves to underestimate the value of what we get out of our investment in government services.\u00a0 If we don&#8217;t measure the benefits, how can we possibly be doing a valid cost\/benefit analysis?<\/p>\n<p>I learned of this article on the Facebook page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Government-is-Good-109490889072513\/\" target=\"_blank\">Government Is Good<\/a>. What a name!\u00a0 However, I think it is going to be a treasure trove of great links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has the article Our Mismeasured Economy. To develop a sustainable growth path, we should heed the business adage: You get what you measure. Fixing the measurement problems surrounding government activities is a good place to start. This article does a wonderful job of identifying one of the reasons we have allowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22657,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22656\/revisions\/22657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}