In France,Mr.Sarkozy says focusing too much on gross domestic product as the main measure of prosperity contributed to the financial crisis.

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So we're just subtracting, in effect, zero, right, from the enthalpy of the product, but of course it's important have that established because the heat of formation is something you could measure, right?

所以从效果上说，我们只是，从生成物的焓中减去了零，但，是确立这一点很重要,因为生成热是,你能测量的东西，对吧？

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The report was commissioned by the French government. The report recommends shifting the ways policymakers look at progress from what economists call gross domestic product,or GDP, which is a general measure of goods and services produced in a country.

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