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The Measure of Progress
Coyle's 2025 synthesis of her decades-long measurement reform argument — the book that articulates the institutional case for rebuilding the economic dashboard to capture what the AI transition makes urgent and what GDP alone cannot show.
The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters is Coyle's most sustained articulation of the measurement pluralism framework. The book synthesizes her career-long argument — that GDP does what it does well, that the problem is asking it to do what it cannot, and that the solution is institutional reform rather than intellectual replacement. The book develops the dashboard framework: a small set of complementary indicators that together capture dimensions of economic reality that any single metric cannot. The AI transition is not the book's primary subject but provides its urgent context — the transformation that makes measurement reform no longer deferrable.
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The book's central argument is institutional rather than theoretical. Coyle does not argue that economists have been wrong about the limits of GDP. The limits have been acknowledged since Kuznets warned the Senate in 1934. The argument is that acknowledgment without institutional change has