**Acknowledgements**

This chapter is dedicated to the memory of the author's best critic, Maria Cohn Bechtel. The author thanks Dr. Bethany Bechtel for the book *The Great Invention: The Story of GDP and the Making and Unmaking of the Modern World* [4]. We have also benefited from Dr. Bechtel's insistence on monitoring a population's economic indicators over time, coupled with a gradual approach to resolving societal conflicts and loosening entrenched beliefs. This paper generalizes previous work reported in [5, 6] and [1, 7, 8]. The author thanks the reviewers of all five of these open access articles for their stringent reviews, which have strengthened *this* article's content and clarity.
