Today, though the need for new indicators of progress is broadly recognized, no consensus has arisen on a successor to … current indicators, by completing or adjusting them, within the logic from which they have emerged. On the other are those for … whom new indicators of progress are liable, if well-designed, to catalyze a transition toward a new model of society, less …

goal and to keep GDP as the major reference for socioeconomic policies. Numerous alternative indicators have been suggested …. These new indicators potentially constitute a great opportunity for change: it is now broadly accepted that what we measure … affects what we do. We go a step further, claiming that the way we measure it is just as crucial: indicators intrinsically …

accepted idea that indicators affect reality, changing them is a high-stakes issue. Potentially, re-fashioning progress … indicators may change our representations of the world, redefine our ends, and reinvent the means by which we pursue them. Such a … four sections of this paper put forward the argument that the debate over new progress indicators is symptomatic of an …