GDP : a brief but affectionate history Diane Coyle.

By:

Coyle, Diane

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.Edition: Revised and expanded editionDescription: ix, 167 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:

9780691169859 (pbk)
0691169853

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

History.

DDC classification:

339.3109 C8398D 23

LOC classification:

HC79.I5 C725 2015

Online resources:

Contents:

From the eighteen 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: twenty-first century GDP.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Books	Central Library, IISER Bhopal Reference Section	Reference	339.3109 C8398D (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan	Reserve		10381

Includes bibliographical references (page 149-159) and index.

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.

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