 Money is an index for the value of material goods and services. It is an imperfect index whose pitfalls are documented in most economics textbooks. Moreover, once the goods to be allocated are extended beyond material ones to include goods such as opportunities, money must be combined with other indices. (For instance, John Rawls’ index of primary goods—see Rawls 1971.) Nevertheless, using money, either in the form of income or wealth or both, as an index for the value of material goods and services is the most common response to the index problem. In terms of public, rather than academic discourse, GDP (gross domestic product) or per capita GDP is most commonly touted as the way to measure the effect of governments’ policies on the population’s well-being. The deficiencies in such indices has now been well-documented and has lead to the proposing of better alternative indices such as the Human Development Index (HDI) and Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI). Unfortunately, the general population is generally unaware of these more accurate indices and so are disadvantaged in their ability to judge the distributive justice effects of their governments’ policies. 