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Dirk Philipsen

Economic Historian, Public Policy, History, Duke University

Dirk Philipsen is an economic historian and wellbeing economics advocate who teaches public policy and history at Duke University in North Carolina. He is also a senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics. His most recent book is The Little Big Number: How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do About It (Princeton, 2015/17).

Written by Dirk Philipsen