GDP : A Brief but Affectionate History / Diane Coyle.

By:

Coyle, Diane [author.]

Material type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780691169859 (pbk)
0691169853

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

History.

DDC classification:

339.3 23 448(D)

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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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	PIPS Library	NFIC	339.3 COY-G 448(D) (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	448(D)

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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