The great invention : the story of GDP and the making and unmaking of the modern world / Ehsan Masood.
Publisher: New York : Pegasus Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First Pegasus Books editionDescription: xxiii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781681771373 (hc.)
- 1681771373 (hc.)
- 339.31 23
- HC79.I5 M34 2016
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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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