A recent post from the European Public Health Alliance on Measuring Progress in a Changing Europe argues for moving well beyond GDP as the dominant measure of social progress. There is growing international recognition of the links between material and overall social well-being and that the equitable distribution of wealth and resources as well as economic growth is a crucial dimension of a social well-being. Their post links to recent European Union reports and discusses work being sponsored by the French government by Nobel laureates Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz.