Bibliograph

The great invention, the story of GDP and the making and unmaking of the modern world, Ehsan Masood

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The great invention, the story of GDP and the making and unmaking of the modern world, Ehsan Masood

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-226) and index

Illustrations

portraitsplatesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The great invention

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

950734835

Responsibility statement

Ehsan Masood

Sub title

the story of GDP and the making and unmaking of the modern world

Summary

"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,"--Amazon.com

Table Of Contents

Lost history -- The great invention -- GDP and its discontents -- The fight for the formula -- Made in Cambridge -- The Karachi economic miracle -- The talented Mr. Strong -- "As vulgar as GDP" -- Exporting Shangri-La -- $33 trillion man -- Stern lessons -- "Nothing is more destructive of democracy" -- Unfinished revolution

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