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GDP : A Brief but Affectionate History / Diane Coyle.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Revised and expanded editionDescription: ix, 167 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780691169859 (pbk)
  • 0691169853
Subject(s): Genre/Form: 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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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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