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# GO Beyond GDP: What Really Drives the Economy? 

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May 13, 2016 12 - 1:30 PM EDT 

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##### Featuring 

Featuring **Mark Skousen**, Author, *The Structure of Production*; **Steve Forbes**, Author, *Reviving America*; and **George Gilder**, Author, *The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does*; moderated by **Peter Goettler**, President, Cato Institute. 

Three economists with new books discuss how to revive economic growth. Mark Skousen has long advocated a new measure of the economy called Gross Output (GO) as a more comprehensive measure of the economy than GDP, a valuable tool in analyzing the business cycle, and a better picture of what drives the economy, and now the federal government has begun publishing that statistic. Steve Forbes calls for patient-centered health care, a flat tax, and sound money as the keys to reform. George Gilder proposes a completely new framework for understanding economic growth. Books will be available for purchase.

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