How should we measure economic success? Criticisms of conventional indicators, particularly GDP, have abounded for years, if not decades. Environmentalists have long pointed out that GDP omits the depletion of natural assets, as well as negative externalities such as global warming. Its failure to capture unpaid but undoubtedly valuable work in the home is another glaring omission — but better alternatives might soon be at hand. In 2009, a commission led by Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen and Jean-Paul Fitoussi spurred efforts to find alternative ways to gauge economic progress by recommending a “dashboard” of indicators. Since then, economists and statisticians,