Title: GDP : a brief but affectionate history /
Authors: Coyle, Diane.
Year: 2014
Subjects: Gross domestic product History.; Economic history; Economics History; Econometrics History.; Econometrics.; Economic history; Economics; Gross domestic product
Abstract: 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? This title deals with these questions.
Contents: From the 18th century to the 1930s: war and depression -- 1945 to 1975: the golden age -- The legacy of the 1970s: a crisis of capitalism -- 1995 to 2005: the new paradigm -- Our times: the Great Crash -- The future: 21st century GDP.