Macroeconomics Beyond GDP asks a simple but radical question: Is GDP measuring growth-or institutional noise?
Temesgen Muleta-Erena introduces Efficient GDP (EGDP), a thermodynamic diagnostic that filters out the entropy hidden inside traditional output measures. By subtracting the systemic costs of governance decay, motivational drag, and infrastructure suppression, EGDP reveals a nation's true productive capacity-clean, aligned, and regenerative.
Drawing from thermodynamic modelling, behavioural incentives, and information-theoretic clarity, this book operationalises entropy diagnostics across countries, organisations, and individual work systems. Across eight essays, Muleta-Erena shows how misalignment distorts economic signals-and how EGDP restores dignity to productivity by measuring what actually works.
Readers will discover:
- EGDP benchmarking tables for 200+ countries
- Diagnostic tools including Burnout Load Index and Governance Load Disparity
- Satirical case studies illustrating systemic misfires
- Entropy ethnography for analysing organisational behaviour
- Reform pathways linking macro-level clarity to personal economic wellbeing
More than a critique of GDP, this book offers a new architecture of progress-one that values coherence, efficiency, and human potential.
About the Author
Temesgen Muleta-Erena is a diagnostic architect and reform theorist whose work exposes systemic inefficiency through entropy-based analysis. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of West London and an MA from the University of East Anglia.
