Barclays fundamentally flawed ‘Prosperity Index’ and the need for more careful media scrutiny

01/09/2016Ben WrayAedan MacRae, researcher with Common Weal, looks at Barclays prosperity index published and heavily covered by the UK media on Tuesday 30 August. He finds flaws in the way the findings were presented, in the data sets used and in the choice of indicators selected IF on Tuesday you read the front page of The […]