GDP is unscientific and unfair for poor people.

[Stephen E Philion]

>Charles, Seems to me that Ju-chang's arguing that bourgeois economists
should change their methodology (for no apparent reason) and that we
should deny the validity of the GDP as a measuring tool altogether.
Very consistent with the view in China among mainstream intellectuals that
capitalist markets should be 'fairer'...such pleas thereby legitimate
further integration of the Chinese political economy into circuits of
global capitalist production and exchange...and draw attention away from
the tie between China's ruling class and the agenda of global financing
institutions...

Steve

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> Charles: Marx, Lenin all of them relied on the statistics and data collected by bourgeois governments for their left analyses. Marx used the Blue Books , etc., etc. Lenin got the category "imperialism" from a bourgeois economist. Left use of bourgeois categories is classcial, but not without radical reworking. There is no denial of the rational kernel that must be extracted from the propaganda husk. Without this change, the categories are part of a congame.
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> Seems to me Ju-Chang's questions get at the difference between the 

 truth and the fraud in GDP.
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> Charles Brown
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