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GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History
Hardcover
by
Diane Coyle
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 and
informative book tells the story of GDP, making sense of a statistic
that appears constantly in the news, business, and politics, and that
seems to rule our lives--but that hardly anyone actually understands.
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.
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