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A Big Mac can do much more than satiate our appetite for burgers that require three pieces of bread: it can give us a lens through which to compa...

Want to see just how half-empty your country's economic glass is? It's as simple as calculating the Misery Index....

There's more to evaluating a country's well-being than merely looking at GDP - that's why the non-profit public policy institute Redefining...

Using its massive collection of e-shopping data, Google is working on an index that accounts for a daily measure of inflation. What is it? Ther...

The ambitious Happy Planet Index hopes to bring the lives of everyone on the planet into a perspective that balances what's most important to our...

Reminding us that, at the very least, our species is still developing, the Human Development Index attempts to rate and rank countries according ...

The man's a legend. Kenneth Rogoff, economist extraordinaire. Used to be the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund and now when you ...

How many people do you have to poll to accurately evaluate a country's well-being? The answer, according to polling giants Gallup and disease man...