Notes

1. Browne 1997.

2. See the following Web site maintained by a San Francisco based organization called "Redefining Progress", http://www.rprogress.org/.

3. Even in today's world, corporate directors have more latitude than they usually assume. In the U.S. for example, corporate officers are legally allowed to do what is in the best interests of their shareholders, broadly conceived, including the non-economic interests of current shareholders and the interests of potential future shareholders.

4. Handy 1994.

5. For example, see the following Web site for information about the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), http://www.rprogress.org

6. See the following papers: Malone and Laubacher 1998 (excerpts comprise chapter 6 of this volume; full text available at http://www.ccs.mit.edu/21c/21CWP001.html); Laubacher, Malone, and the MIT Scenario Working Group 1997 (available at http://www.ccs.mit.edu/21c/21CWP004.html).

7. This idea was suggested by Don Lessard.

8. Bailyn, Fletcher, and Kolb 1997.