是应当清醒了。
对于还相信GDP的人,看看Kuznets本人是如何说的,恐怕会很有帮助:
"The statistician who supposes that he can make a purely objective estimate of national income, not influenced by preconceptions concerning the "facts," is deluding himself; for whenever he includes one item or excludes another he is implicitly accepting some standard of judgement, his own or that of the compiler of the data. There is no escaping this subjective element." (Kuznets, National Income and its Composition, 1919–1938, NBER, 1941.)
事实上,试图以货币来衡量所谓“国民财富”,无异缘木求鱼,当然,这种说法也有问题,因为,恐怕根本就没有“鱼”。正如Mises所言,"The attempts to determine in money the wealth of a nation or of the whole of mankind are as childish as the mystic efforts to solve the riddles of the universe by worrying about the dimensions of the pyramid of Cheops."