The great invention : the story of GDP and the making and unmaking of the modern world / Ehsan Masood.

By: Masood, Ehsan [author.]
Language: English Publisher: New York : Pegasus Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First Pegasus Books editionDescription: xxiii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781681771373 (hc.); 1681771373 (hc.)Subject(s): Gross domestic product -- History | Economics -- History | Econometrics -- History | Economic history | Econometrics | Economic history | Economics | Gross domestic productGenre/Form: History.DDC classification: 339.31 LOC classification: HC79.I5 | M34 2016
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
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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.

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