Twelve years ago today my ENT called saying a pathologist confirmed I had a squamous cell carcinoma. Days later my oncologist gave me a 45% chance of surviving five years. And yet I am still here, ...

Gross domestic product (GDP, a government-produced measure of economic output) is one of the most widely discussed ...

When my ENT said, “We need to get you a fine-needle aspiration as soon as possible,” I immediately knew that I was entering a different chapter in my life. Nine years on, it is clear that my neck ...

I’ve written a number of times on CD about the possible limitations of official GDP accounting methods (developed in the 1930s during the Machine Age) for measuring economic activity, output and ...

In today’s WSJ, Harvard University economics professor Martin Feldstein has an excellent op-ed (“The U.S. Underestimates Growth“) about a recent topic covered in a series of posts on CD — how “the ...

Eugenio Proto and Aldo Rustichini have written a new column for VOX in which they argue that once GDP per capita reaches a certain level, it actually begins to correlate with lower life satisfaction.

University of British Columbia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of British Columbia provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. In 1968, the late ...

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems ...