How non-economist Economics successfully explains GDP
The Idea of Ideas
Non-economist Economics succeeds by enumerating what everyone knows; ideas - when developed - improve our lives and make us richer.i → R&D → GDPDespite decades of effort - and the award of Economics Prizes for progress - economistEconomics leaves gaps and questions in and around each arrow of the above sequence.To fill these gaps and answer these questions reigning paradigms within economic discourseneed new imagination. Among these are the Cournot determination of price, the Hedonicmethod of characterizing quality change and the Cobb-Douglas Production Function. Decadesof trial and effort with these methodologies recently went awry when a half-Nobel prize wasawarded for a suppression model of innovation, when escalation clearly dominates,the 2025 Nobel Committee faces what innovators knowincluding an escalation solution that already exists. Its key principles - Competitive Pressure,Co-existence, Non-existence, New Existence, Origination, and Conveyance - change theemphasis in economic growth from Capital and Labor to a novel and original mechanismof ideas that operate in markets and numerically convert i to GDP; eclipsing antecedents.