{"id":701,"date":"2022-05-10T10:09:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T10:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=701"},"modified":"2022-08-26T19:47:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T19:47:49","slug":"04-22-accounting-for-whom-marilyn-waring-vs-the-gdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"#04-22 Accounting for whom? \u2026 Marilyn Waring vs. the GDP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Waring asserts and documents that the UN-prescribed system of international accounts was designed to justify expenditures on war, that it serves weapons manufacturers very well, but has severe deficiencies as a set of decision-making statistics for governance. She gives examples from various countries of the perverse results of using money annually spent as the only measure of value and national success and taking no notice of other human activity or environmental conditions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Host(s):<\/strong>\u00a0Maria Gilardin, Frieda Werden<br><strong>Featured Speakers\/Guests:<\/strong>\u00a0Marilyn Waring formerly chaired the Public Expenditures Committee of New Zealand&#8217;s Parliament. Her most famous book is If Women Counted. She has a doctorate in Political Economy, and continues to mount international campaigns against the GDP.\u00a0<br><br><strong>Credits:<\/strong>\u00a0Audio documentary by Maria Gilardin of TUC Radio, based on the 1996 documentary film Who&#8217;s Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics, produced by Canadian filmmaker Terre Nash and now available to view at nfb.ca &#8211; Program adapted for WINGS by Frieda Werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1B3lT-X2eATX16_r352xpd218PuX1TZEa\/view?usp=drivesdk\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1B3lT-X2eATX16_r352xpd218PuX1TZEa\/view?usp=drivesdk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waring asserts and documents that the UN-prescribed system of international accounts was designed to justify expenditures on war, that it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,19,36,55,60],"tags":[94,76,91,69],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-archive","category-environment","category-politics","category-science-and-technology","category-society-and-culture","tag-environment","tag-politics","tag-science-and-technology","tag-society-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}