Gdp a brief but affectionate history

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How GDP came to rule our lives—and why it needs to change

Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013—or Ghana's balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did the U.K. financial industry show its fastest expansion ever at the end of 2008—just as the world’s financial system went into meltdown? And why was Greece’s chief statistician charged with treason in 2013 for apparently doing nothing more than trying to accurately report the size of his country’s economy? The answers to all these questions lie in the way we define and measure national economies around the world: Gross Domestic Product. This entertaining and informative book tells the story of GDP, making sense of a statistic that appears constantly in the news, business, and politics, and that seems to rule our lives—but that hardly anyone actually understands.

Diane Coyle traces the history of this artificial, abstract, complex, but exceedingly important statistic from its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century precursors through its invention in the 1940s and its postwar golden age, and then through the Great Crash up to today. The reader learns why this standard measure of the size of a country’s economy was invented, how it has changed over the decades, and what its strengths and weaknesses are. The book explains why even small changes in GDP can decide elections, influence major political decisions, and determine whether countries can keep borrowing or be thrown into recession. The book ends by making the case that GDP was a good measure for the twentieth century but is increasingly inappropriate for a twenty-first-century economy driven by innovation, services, and intangible goods.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: E-book

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 22 september 2015

Aantal pagina's: 184

Ebook Formaat: Adobe ePub

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Diane Coyle

Hoofduitgeverij: Princeton University Press

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Product breedte: 140 mm

Product hoogte: 13 mm

Product lengte: 216 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 146 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 22 mm

Verpakking lengte: 225 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 347 g

EAN: 9781400873630

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