Goodhart's law (named after UK economist Charles Goodhart) states that "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
Goodhart said that “Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes”.
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a particular example of a measure subject to Goodhart's law.
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