The Gross Domestic Reproduction Product (GDRP) is a proposed measure for the long-term sustainability of an economy.
While Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures how much economic activity takes place within a given period, GDRP asks:
How well is a system able to maintain and renew its own prerequisites for the future?
The focus is not on the quantity of transactions generated.
The focus is on the capacity for reproduction.
Gross Domestic Product measures economic performance.
It captures, among other things:
This creates a picture of current economic activity.
However, GDP does not answer whether the foundations of this activity are being preserved.
Growing GDP can occur simultaneously with:
GDP measures movement.
It does not measure whether this movement is sustainable in the long term.
The Gross Domestic Reproduction Product poses a different question:
How many times can this system reproduce itself in the future under comparable conditions?
The focus is on a system's ability to maintain or even improve its own foundations.
An economy does not reproduce itself through money alone.
For supply to remain sustainable, various foundations must be preserved:
Two regions generate the same economic turnover.
Region A achieves this turnover through:
Region B achieves the same turnover through:
In classical GDP, both regions appear similarly successful.
In GDRP, they differ significantly.
Region B increases its capacity for future self-reproduction.
Region A diminishes it.
Recursive network economics does not only consider individual outcomes.
It considers the conditions for future outcomes.
Therefore, GDRP fits particularly well with a recursive perspective.
The decisive question is not:
How much was produced today?
But rather:
How strongly were the prerequisites created to enable supply, community, and value creation again tomorrow?
GDRP attempts to make visible:
How many future cycles are strengthened by today's economy?
The higher a system's capacity to:
the higher its reproductive value.
In the TEIKEI understanding, an economy is successful when it strengthens its own foundations.
A harvest is not only successful because it yields a return.
It is successful when, at the same time:
The Gross Domestic Reproduction Product attempts to make precisely this perspective visible.
It complements the question of current performance with the question of future repeatability.
Gross Domestic Product asks:
How much economic activity is taking place today?
Gross Domestic Reproduction Product asks:
How well can this system reproduce itself tomorrow, next year, and for the next generation?
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