GDP [electronic resource] : a brief but affectionate history / Diane Coyle.
2014
HC79.I5 .C695 2014eb
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GDP [electronic resource] : a brief but affectionate history / Diane Coyle.
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9781400849970 electronic book
9780691156798 hardcover
9780691156798 hardcover
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Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxfordshire, England : Princeton University Press, 2014.
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©2014
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English
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1 online resource (159 pages) : illustrations.
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HC79.I5 .C695 2014eb
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339.3109
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-152) and index.
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Table of Contents
From the 18th century to the 1930s: war and depression
1945 to 1975: the golden age
The legacy of the 1970s: a crisis of capitalism
1995 to 2005: the new paradigm
Our times: the Great Crash
The future: 21st century GDP.
1945 to 1975: the golden age
The legacy of the 1970s: a crisis of capitalism
1995 to 2005: the new paradigm
Our times: the Great Crash
The future: 21st century GDP.