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A Brief but Affectionate History - Revised and expanded Edition
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Princeton University Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 9VQK468
EAN: 9780691169859
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Beschreibung
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.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Diane Coyle
Thema
- Wirtschaft: Allgemein
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2015
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 184