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GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History - Revised and expanded Edition

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Description for GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History - Revised and expanded Edition Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages, 2 halftones. 2 line illus. 2 tables. BIC Classification: KCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 141 x 224 x 15. Weight in Grams: 244.
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. This entertaining ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691169859
SKU
V9780691169859
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About Diane Coyle
Diane Coyle is professor of economics at the University of Manchester. She runs the consultancy Enlightenment Economics, and as well as a regular blog, she is the author of numerous books, including The Economics of Enough and The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters (both Princeton).

Reviews for GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History - Revised and expanded Edition
Winner of the 2015 Bronze Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Books of 2014 One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014 One of FA-mag.com's Books of the Year 2014 One of The Books Quartz Read in 2014 One of Minnpost.com's 'Three (plus) books for the econ buff on your ... Read more

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