An edition of The great invention (2016)

The great invention

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

First Pegasus Books edition.
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An edition of The great invention (2016)

The great invention

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

First Pegasus Books edition.
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"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,"--Jacket.

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Pegasus Books
Language
English
Pages
231

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Great Invention: The Story of GDP and the Making and Unmaking of the Modern World
2016, Pegasus Books
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2016, Pegasus Books
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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-226) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
339.31
Library of Congress
HC79.I5 M34 2016, HC79.I5

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiii, 231 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
231

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27209944M
ISBN 10
1681771373
ISBN 13
9781681771373
OCLC/WorldCat
950734835

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