@article{706925, author = {Coyle, Diane.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/706925}, title = {GDP a brief but affectionate history / [electronic resource] :}, abstract = {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.}, recid = {706925}, pages = {1 online resource (159 pages) :}, }