>Greetings, 
> 
>A recent group has arisen, calling itself "Redefining Progress," and has 
>developed a critique of GDP as a standard measure of economic well-being. 
>Granted, this is less broad than societal well-being, but the point is 
still 
>valid. 
> 
>Their address is: 
> 
>One Kearny Street 
>4th Floor 
>San Francisco, CA  94104 
> 
>Phone # 415 781 1191 
> 
>This is as of last September.  Last November, I believe, there was an 
article 
>on the topic, from the organization, in _Atlantic Monthly_.  It was fairly 
>readable, and could even serve as useful background to almost any 
>macroeconomics course, whether for the general public or not.  You should 
be 
>able to get some interesting material from the article or from the group 
>itself. 
 
Yeah. The theory behind "Redefining Progress" was good--the implementation 
I thought had a _lot_ of problems with it, so the actual _estimates_ they 
produced seemed to me to be worse than the GDP numbers they started with... 
 
Brad De Long