The great invention
Subtitle: the story of GDP and the making and unmaking of the modern world
By: Ehsan Masood
Edition: First Pegasus Books edition.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781681771373
Subjects: History; Gross domestic product; Economics; Economic history
Description: "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,"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: Lost history; title: The great invention; title: GDP and its discontents; title: The fight for the formula; title: Made in Cambridge; title: The Karachi economic miracle; title: The talented Mr. Strong; title: "As vulgar as GDP"; title: Exporting Shangri-La; title: $33 trillion man; title: Stern lessons; title: "Nothing is more destructive of democracy"; title: Unfinished revolution.