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The great invention : the story of GDP and the making and unmaking of the modern world / Ehsan Masood.

By: Publisher: New York : Pegasus Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First Pegasus Books editionDescription: xxiii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781681771373 (hc.)
  • 1681771373 (hc.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 339.31 23
LOC classification:
  • HC79.I5 M34 2016
Contents:
Lost history -- The great invention -- GDP and its discontents -- The fight for the formula -- Made in Cambridge -- The Karachi economic miracle -- The talented Mr. Strong -- "As vulgar as GDP" -- Exporting Shangri-La -- $33 trillion man -- Stern lessons -- "Nothing is more destructive of democracy" -- Unfinished revolution.
Summary: "The fascinating story of one of the twentieth-century's most influential and dangerously addictive ideas, told through the lives of those who invented it,"--Amazon.com.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HC79 .I5 M34 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001407252

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-226) and index.

Lost history -- The great invention -- GDP and its discontents -- The fight for the formula -- Made in Cambridge -- The Karachi economic miracle -- The talented Mr. Strong -- "As vulgar as GDP" -- Exporting Shangri-La -- $33 trillion man -- Stern lessons -- "Nothing is more destructive of democracy" -- Unfinished revolution.

"The fascinating story of one of the twentieth-century's most influential and dangerously addictive ideas, told through the lives of those who invented it,"--Amazon.com.

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