This guide shows you how to interpret critical economic indicators, in order to make solid investments, aid in business planning, and help develop informed decisions.

Provides a comprehensive overview of economic indicators, explaining what they are, what they mean, and how they can be used to help people understand issues related to the economy.

"A consensus has emerged among key experts that our conventional economic measures are out of sync with how most people experience their lives. GDP, they argue, is a poor and outmoded measure of our well-being. The global movement to advance beyond GDP has attracted some of the world's leading economists, statisticians, and social thinkers who have worked collectively to articulate new approaches to measuring economic well-being and social progress....

"An indispensable reference for all researchers interested in the measurement of social welfare. . ." --François Bourguignon, Emeritus Professor at Paris School of Economics, Former Chief Economist of the World Bank. ". . .a detailed, insightful, and pedagogical presentation of the theoretical grounds of multidimensional well-being, inequality, and poverty measurement. Any student, researcher, and practitioner interested in the multidimensional approach...

Statista provides data, including reports, metrics and infographics, for over 170 diverse global industries and markets. Use Statista when you are looking for visually displayed statistics, and to add graphs to a presentation or project.

From Dow Jones columnist Constable and financial historian Wright comes an entertaining and must-have guide to how investors can forecast and exploit sea changes in the global macroeconomic climate.