©2016 Bloomberg View O15G456JTSE8 (Bloomberg View) — At its best, economics is the study of what makes people better off, and how they can have more of it. To be effective, though, economists may have to tackle a tougher question: what “better off”‘ really means. For much of the past

published Aug 2nd 2016, 3:31 pm, by Anna-Louise Jackson and Bailey Lipschultz (Bloomberg) — U.S. stocks declined the most in four weeks, as sliding crude prices and lackluster consumer spending data revived anxiety that global growth will falter. Equities narrowly avoided their worst day since the selloff following Britain’s vote