>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