Gross domestic problem
Subtitle: the politics behind the world's most powerful number
By: Lorenzo Fioramonti
Series: Economic controversies
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781780322735; 9781780322728
Subjects: Gross domestic product; Political aspects
Description: Gross domestic product is one of the best known and most powerful statistics in the contemporary world. It drives government policy on a variety of vital areas, from health to education. Yet perhaps for the first time since its invention in the 1930s, a wide range of people regard this icon of economic growth as a problem. Gross Domestic Problem unpacks GDP, what it measures, what it doesn't, and why, and reveals the powerful politics that have allowed it to dominate today's economies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-191) and index.
Table of contents: title: The world's most powerful number; title: The history of GDP: from crisis to crisis; title: The Frankenstein syndrome; title: The global quest to dethrone GDP; title: Change from below; title: Supremacy and resistance.