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03/05/08
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Witnesses Announced for GDP Calculation Hearing
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation announced today the witness for an Interstate Commerce, Trade, and Tourism Subcommittee hearing on the calculation of the gross domestic product (GDP). The witnesses are listed below.
 
At this hearing, Rethinking the Gross Domestic Product as a Measurement of National Strength, the subcommittee will examine whether the GDP constitutes an accurate reflection of economic growth and social well-being, which factors are included in and excluded from the calculation of the GDP, and how national policy and decision making are impacted by emphasis placed on the GDP. Senator Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.) will preside. 
 
Rethinking the Gross Domestic Product as a Measurement of National Strength
Interstate Commerce, Trade, and Tourism Subcommittee
Date:  Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Time:  1:30 p.m.
Location:  Room 253, Russell Senate Office Building
 
Witnesses:
Panel I
Dr. J. Steven Landefeld, Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis    
 
Panel II
Dr. Robert H. Frank, Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics, Johnson Graduate School of Management

Dr. Karen Davis, President, Commonwealth Fund
 
Dr. Katherine Abraham, Professor, Joint Program/Survey Methodology, University of Maryland
 
Mr. Jonathan Rowe, Co-Director, West Marin Commons
 
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