News / Brèves Back to previous selection / Retour à la sélection précédente no.2 class: LaRouche’s Physical Economic Metrics, Part I: Productive Powers of Labour vs Jobs 11 October 2017 Welcome to Part Two of our economic series examining Lyndon LaRouche’s economic forecasting method, lead by three members of his Scientific Research Team. This week—How do you measure the growth and progress in an economy? Textbook economics notions of GDP, market analysis, and monetary theory fail to provide a measure of true progress or decline. Economics is fundamentally a physical process, and we start by understanding the role of technologies and machinery in improving the productive powers of labour. See : Class No.1: LaRouche’s Science of Economics is the Basis for US Joining the New Paradigm Return to Activities / Interventions