GDP : a brief but affectionate history Diane Coyle.
Material type: TextPublication details: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.Edition: Revised and expanded editionDescription: ix, 167 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780691169859 (pbk)
- 0691169853
- 339.3109 C8398D 23
- HC79.I5 C725 2015
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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.
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.
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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