TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coyle,Diane
TI  - GDP: a brief but affectionate history 
SN  - 9780691169859 (pbk.) :
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Gross domestic product
KW  - History
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Economics
KW  - Econometrics
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Previous edition: 2014; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - Why did the size of the US economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013 - or Ghana's balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did the UK 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 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
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