In a 2014 issue of Nature, members of our research group called for abandoning the gross domestic product as the key indicator in economic policymaking. In this new article, we argue that a new post–gross domestic product economy focusing on wellbeing rather than material output is already emerging in the Anthropocene, thanks to the convergence of policy reforms and economic shifts. At the policy level, the Sustainable Development Goals require policymakers to protect ecosystems, promote greater equality, and focus on long-term equitable development. At the economy level, the provision of services has outpaced industrial production as the key driver of prosperity, with innovative business models optimizing the match between supply and demand and giving rise to a burgeoning “sharing economy”, which produces value to people while reducing output and costs. The economic transformation already underway is, however, delayed by an obsolete system of measurement of economic performance still dominated by the gross domestic product–based national accounts, which rewards the incumbent and disincentives the new. We show that a different approach to measuring wellbeing and prosperity is the “missing link” we need to connect recent evolutions in policy and the economy with a view to activating a sustainable development paradigm for a good Anthropocene.

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从国内生产总值到福祉：替代指标如何帮助将新经济与可持续发展目标联系起来

在2014年的《自然》杂志上，我们研究小组的成员呼吁放弃国内生产总值，这是经济决策的关键指标。在这篇新文章中，我们认为，由于政策改革和经济转变的融合，人类世代已经出现了一种新的后国民生产总值经济，其重点是福祉而不是物质产出。在政策层面，可持续发展目标要求政策制定者保护生态系统，促进更大的平等，并关注长期的公平发展。在经济层面，服务的提供已经超过工业生产，这是繁荣的主要驱动力，创新的商业模式优化了供需之间的匹配，并催生了蓬勃发展的“共享经济”，在减少产出和成本的同时为人们创造价值。但是，已经过时的衡量经济绩效的体系仍然由以国民生产总值为基础的国民核算占主导地位，已经推迟了已经在进行的经济转型，这奖励了现有企业并抑制了新企业的发展。我们表明，衡量福祉和繁荣的另一种方法是“缺失的一环”，我们需要将政策和经济的最新发展联系起来，以期为良好的人类世世激活可持续发展的范式。