Masood, Ehsan,
The great invention : the story of GDP and the making and unmaking of the modern world / Ehsan Masood. - First Pegasus Books edition. - xxiii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-226) and index.
Lost history -- The great invention -- GDP and its discontents -- The fight for the formula -- Made in Cambridge -- The Karachi economic miracle -- The talented Mr. Strong -- "As vulgar as GDP" -- Exporting Shangri-La -- $33 trillion man -- Stern lessons -- "Nothing is more destructive of democracy" -- Unfinished revolution.
"The fascinating story of one of the twentieth-century's most influential and dangerously addictive ideas, told through the lives of those who invented it,"--Amazon.com.
9781681771373 (hc.) 1681771373 (hc.)
2017394602
Gross domestic product--History.
Economics--History.
Econometrics--History.
Economic history.
Econometrics.
Economic history.
Economics.
Gross domestic product.
History.
HC79.I5 / M34 2016
339.31
The great invention : the story of GDP and the making and unmaking of the modern world / Ehsan Masood. - First Pegasus Books edition. - xxiii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-226) and index.
Lost history -- The great invention -- GDP and its discontents -- The fight for the formula -- Made in Cambridge -- The Karachi economic miracle -- The talented Mr. Strong -- "As vulgar as GDP" -- Exporting Shangri-La -- $33 trillion man -- Stern lessons -- "Nothing is more destructive of democracy" -- Unfinished revolution.
"The fascinating story of one of the twentieth-century's most influential and dangerously addictive ideas, told through the lives of those who invented it,"--Amazon.com.
9781681771373 (hc.) 1681771373 (hc.)
2017394602
Gross domestic product--History.
Economics--History.
Econometrics--History.
Economic history.
Econometrics.
Economic history.
Economics.
Gross domestic product.
History.
HC79.I5 / M34 2016
339.31