Looking at our happiness through an economic lens, our metric can be a Misery Index composed of inflation and unemployment.
Which Half of the Misery Index Makes Us Sadder?
Recalling the Misery Index and concerns about inflation, we can ask whether economists believe that inflation or unemployment make us sadder.
What the Misery Index Says About Sadness
Wondering why plunging unemployment and sustained economic growth have not lifted our spirits, we need just look at the Misery Index.
What We Can Learn From a Happiness Curve
Whether looking at great apes or humans, there is evidence that all of us experience a dip in our happiness curves at a similar stage of the life cycle.
How the Economy Affects Our Vote
The impact of the economy on our voting patterns is about much more than inflation, unemployment, and how much the GDP has grown.
How to Measure Our Misery
The economic way to demonstrate sadness is to look at misery indexes that use macro data to measure changes in our emotions.
Our Weekly Roundup: From Misery to Chocolate
This week’s everyday economics stories involved quantitative easing, monetary and fiscal policy, supply and demand, ROI, GDP, unemployment and inflation.
An Economist’s Definition of Misery
While a misery index shows a nation’s inflation and unemployment rates, the eurozone’s high unemployment might create disproportionate unhappiness.
