GDP : a brief but affectionate history /
Coyle, Diane.
GDP : a brief but affectionate history / Diane Coyle. - 159 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-152) and index.
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.
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.
9780691156798 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 0691156794 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
2013022478
Gross domestic product--History.
Economic history.
Economics--History.
Econometrics--History.
Producto interno bruto--Historia.
Historia económica.
HC 79 / C881g 2014
339.3109
GDP : a brief but affectionate history / Diane Coyle. - 159 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-152) and index.
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.
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.
9780691156798 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 0691156794 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
2013022478
Gross domestic product--History.
Economic history.
Economics--History.
Econometrics--History.
Producto interno bruto--Historia.
Historia económica.
HC 79 / C881g 2014
339.3109