Gross domestic problem : the politics behind the world's most powerful number

Gross domestic problem : the politics behind the world's most powerful number / Lorenzo Fioramonti.

"Gross domestic product is one of the best-known and most powerful statistics in the contemporary world. It drives government policy on a variety of vital areas, from health to education. Yet perhaps for the first time since its invention in the 1930s, a wide range of people regard this icon of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fioramonti, Lorenzo
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Zed Books, 2013.
Series:Economic controversies.
Subjects:
Gross national product > Statistics.
Gross domestic product.
Industrial productivity > Forecasting.
Social research & statistics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
Gross domestic product
Gross national product
Industrial productivity > Forecasting
Statistics
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Table of Contents:
  • The world's most powerful number
  • The history of GDP: from crisis to crisis
  • The Frankenstein syndrome
  • The global quest to dethrone GDP
  • Change from below
  • Supremacy and resistance.
  • About the series; About the author; Title page; Copyright; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction The world's most powerful number; What is GDP?; The politics of GDP; GDP and its critics; Chapter 1 The history of GDP: from crisis to crisis; Numbers and politics: the pre-history of GDP; GDP as a 'war machine'; Manipulation and the 'stats war'; Globalization of national income and the global economic crisis; The greatest invention of the twentieth century?; Chapter 2 The Frankenstein syndrome; Taming the monster; Figure 2.1 GDP growth in the USA.

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