GDP [electronic resource] : a brief but affectionate history / Diane Coyle.

9781400849970 electronic book
9780691156798 hardcover

Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxfordshire, England : Princeton University Press, 2014.

©2014

English

1 online resource (159 pages) : illustrations.

HC79.I5 .C695 2014eb

339.3109

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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