The calculations go on to suggest that, had Scotland included oil and gas within its national accounting in 2010 and 2011, gross domestic product would have contracted by a full 3% last year.

BBC: A leak in the growth pipeline

President Nicolas Sarkozy has called upon Nobel prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen in his quest to find an alternative to the widely-used metrics of gross domestic product and gross national product.

FORBES: Magazine Article

We are living with the results: National debt greater than 100% of annual gross domestic product and no end in sight, just as the baby boomers stop working and start sucking down expensive federal entitlements.

CNN: Cuts too deep? No, not deep enough