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The Power of a Single Number: A Political History of GDP

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Description for The Power of a Single Number: A Political History of GDP Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBLW; JPQB; KCP; KCZ; KFCP; KJ; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 454.
Widely used since the mid-twentieth century, GDP (gross domestic product) has become the world's most powerful statistical indicator of national development and progress. Practically all governments adhere to the idea that GDP growth is a primary economic target, and while criticism of this measure has grown, neither its champions nor its detractors deny its central importance in our political culture. In The Power of a Single Number, Philipp Lepenies recounts the lively history of GDP's political acceptance-and eventual dominance. Locating the origins of GDP measurements in Renaissance England, Lepenies explores the social and political factors that originally hindered its ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
379g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231175104
SKU
V9780231175104
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About Philipp H. Lepenies
Philipp Lepenies is guest professor for social science at the Free University of Berlin. His research focuses on the success of economic ideas and concepts in politics. He is also the author of Art, Politics, and Development: How Linear Perspective Shaped Policies in the Western World (2013).

Reviews for The Power of a Single Number: A Political History of GDP
It is an amazing but little-remarked fact that governments all over the world take as their top economic objective the increase of one number: gross domestic product. Philipp Lepenies traces how this strange unanimity came to be, taking the reader on a colorful journey through England, Germany, and the United States and bringing things into the present with an account ... Read more

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