GDP : a brief but affectionate history /

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...

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Main Author: Coyle, Diane
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxfordshire, United Kingdom : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Edition:Revised and expanded edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • From the eighteen 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: twenty-first century GDP.