Beyond Growth: Building a wellbeing economy can help us avoid collapse

Econometrician Gaya Herrington argues for replacing GDP growth with a "wellbeing economy" that redirects innovation, work, and policy toward human flourishing and healthy ecosystems within planetary boundaries.

Why this matters → Shifting the core metric of economic success from growth to wellbeing is foundational to redesigning governance systems — it changes which policies get funded, which innovations get prioritized, and how we measure progress at every scale from local to global.