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Resumo: This paper examines the adoption of indicators of economic growth as part of a narrative of conviction employed by the military regime in Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s designed to help fulfil the promises of economic recovery and stabilization, eventually resulting in the narrative of an economic miracle or takeoff under authoritarian rule. It examines how knowledge brokers, in particular economists and institutions associated with the regime, buttressed public confidence in the numbers and the related instruments of quantification - especially the metric of ‘rate of growth’ - publicized by the Brazilian government in magazines, newspapers, and radio and tv programs targeted to the new urban middle classes and the business class. Indicators such as the GDP and the GNP aimed to foster allocation of investment in key sectors, encourage saving and focus consumption on material goods, thus fulfilling some of the conditions for an economic takeoff. The paper also examines the regimes of futurity that competed for prominence during the adoption of these indicators and explores the relationship between economic narratives and economic knowledge as tools of government.