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.