GDP A Brief but Affectionate H

Coyle, Diane

ISBN 10: 0691156794 / ISBN 13: 9780691156798

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2014

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Inhaltsangabe:

Diane Coyle traces the history of this artificial, abstract, complex, but exceedingly important statistic from its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century precursors through its invention in the 1940s and its postwar golden age, and then through the Great Crash up to today. The reader learns why this standard measure of the size of a country's economy was invented, how it has changed over the decades, and what its strengths and weaknesses are. The book explains why even small changes in GDP can decide elections, influence major political decisions, and determine whether countries can keep borrowing or be thrown into recession. The book ends by making the case that GDP was a good measure for the twentieth century but is increasingly inappropriate for a twenty-first-century economy driven by innovation, services, and intangible goods.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Diane Coyle is the author of a number of books, including The Economics of Enough and The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters (both Princeton). She holds a PhD in economics from Harvard and is a visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: GDP A Brief but Affectionate H
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good