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https://www.ecosystemmarketplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Illusion.jpg900898For decades, economists and policy-makers have used Gross Domestic Product to measure productivity and wealth; but GDP is notoriously bad at measuring well-being. Most alternatives have proven too soft for mainstream economists, but natural capital accounting is taking hold around the world. What's needed is more cooperation between ecological and economic sciences, argues Alex Spring.