The Resource The great invention : the story of GDP and the making and unmaking of the modern world, Ehsan Masood
The great invention : the story of GDP and the making and unmaking of the modern world, Ehsan Masood
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- Summary
- "The world's principal measure of the health of economies is gross domestic product, or GDP: the sum of what all of us spend every day, from the contents of our weekly shopping to large capital spending by businesses. GDP also includes the myriad things that our governments pay for: from libraries and schools to naval dockyards and nuclear weapons. [This book] reveals how in just a few decades GDP became the world's most powerful formula: how six algebraic symbols forged in the fires of the 1930s economic crisis helped America and Europe prosper and why the remedy now risks killing the patient it once saved. This flawed metric is creating an illusion of global prosperity; many world leaders want to be able to ignore it, but so far remain powerless to do so."--Front flap of jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Pegasus Books edition.
- Extent
- xxiii, 231 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- Prologue: lost history
- Introduction: 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"
- Epilogue: unfinished revolution
- Isbn
- 9781681771373
- Label
- The great invention : the story of GDP and the making and unmaking of the modern world
- Title
- The great invention
- Title remainder
- the story of GDP and the making and unmaking of the modern world
- Statement of responsibility
- Ehsan Masood
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The world's principal measure of the health of economies is gross domestic product, or GDP: the sum of what all of us spend every day, from the contents of our weekly shopping to large capital spending by businesses. GDP also includes the myriad things that our governments pay for: from libraries and schools to naval dockyards and nuclear weapons. [This book] reveals how in just a few decades GDP became the world's most powerful formula: how six algebraic symbols forged in the fires of the 1930s economic crisis helped America and Europe prosper and why the remedy now risks killing the patient it once saved. This flawed metric is creating an illusion of global prosperity; many world leaders want to be able to ignore it, but so far remain powerless to do so."--Front flap of jacket
- Cataloging source
- NjBwBT
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Masood, Ehsan
- Dewey number
- 339.3/109
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HC79.I5
- LC item number
- M27 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Gross domestic product
- Economics
- Economic history
- Label
- The great invention : the story of GDP and the making and unmaking of the modern world, Ehsan Masood
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-226) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue: lost history -- Introduction: 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" -- Epilogue: unfinished revolution
- Control code
- bl2016023129
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First Pegasus Books edition.
- Extent
- xxiii, 231 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781681771373
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- The great invention : the story of GDP and the making and unmaking of the modern world, Ehsan Masood
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-226) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue: lost history -- Introduction: 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" -- Epilogue: unfinished revolution
- Control code
- bl2016023129
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First Pegasus Books edition.
- Extent
- xxiii, 231 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781681771373
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
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