Rachel Reeves should rewrite the rulebook on GDP growth | Letters

Donald Power, Dr Neil Lancastle and Andrew Risby respond to an editorial on Britain’s broken economyRe your editorial (The Guardian view on Britain’s broken economy: ‘That’s your bloody GDP, not ours’, 13 February), we are frequently reminded of the inadequacy of GDP growth as an objective, given that it includes the money spent on dealing with pollution, sickness, crime etc. But nobody gets out of bed thinking, “I have to grow GDP today”. We’re th