The Great Invention
eBook - ePub

The Great Invention

The Story of GDP and the Making and Unmaking of the Modern World

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Great Invention

The Story of GDP and the Making and Unmaking of the Modern World

About this book

The world's principal measure of the health of economies is gross domestic product, or GDP: the sum of what all of us spend every day, from the contents of our weekly shopping to large capital spending by businesses. GDP also includes the myriad things that our governments pay for, from libraries and road-line painting to naval dockyards and nuclear weapons.The Great Invention reveals how in just a few decades GDP became the world's most powerful formula: how six algebraic symbols forged in the fires of the 1930's economic crisis helped Europe and America prosper, how the remedy now risks killing the patient it once saved, and how this fundamentally flawed metric is creating the illusion of global prosperity—and why many world leaders want to be able to ignore it but so far remain powerless to do so. Drawing on interviews, firsthand accounts, and previously neglected source materials, The Great Invention takes readers on a journey from Capitol Hill to Whitehall—on the trail of theories made in Cambridge, tested in Karachi, and designed for global application—into the minds of unworldly geniuses seduced by the allure of power and the demands of politics.

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Information

Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781681771373
eBook ISBN
9781681771816
Topic
Betriebswirtschaft
Subtopic
Business allgemein

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Prologue: Lost History
  6. Introduction: The Great Invention
  7. Chapter One: GDP and Its Discontents
  8. Chapter Two: The Fight for the Formula
  9. Chapter Three: Made in Cambridge
  10. Chapter Four: The Karachi Economic Miracle
  11. Chapter Five: The Talented Mr. Strong
  12. Chapter Six: “As Vulgar as GDP”
  13. Chapter Seven: Exporting Shangri-La
  14. Chapter Eight: $33 Trillion Man
  15. Chapter Nine: Stern Lessons
  16. Chapter Ten: “Nothing Is More Destructive of Democracy”
  17. Epilogue: Unfinished Revolution
  18. A Note on Symbols
  19. Acknowledgments
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Illustrations
  23. Index
  24. Copyright

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