published Aug 27, 2017 5:19:41 PM, by Jessica Summers (Bloomberg) —Gasoline surged and oil was steady as flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey inundated refining centers along the Texas coast, shutting more than 10 percent of U.S. fuel-making capacity. Front-month gasoline futures jumped as much as 6.8 percent while oil added

©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