Letter to the editor: Are indicators telling us the real story about progress?

Richard Eckersley ()

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2019, vol. 141, issue 2, No 19, 919-929

Abstract: Abstract Global politics is based on an outmoded and increasingly destructive model of human progress and development. Can science change a dire situation?

Keywords: Development; Modernisation; Politics; Progress; Quality of life; Sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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