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The great invention : the story of GDP and the making and unmaking of the modern world /

Masood, Ehsan,

The great invention : the story of GDP and the making and unmaking of the modern world / Ehsan Masood. - First Pegasus Books edition. - xxiii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-226) and index.

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.

"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.

ISBN: 9781681771373 (hc.) 1681771373 (hc.)

LCCN: 2017394602

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Gross domestic product--History.
Economics--History.
Econometrics--History.
Economic history.
Econometrics.
Economic history.
Economics.
Gross domestic product.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.

LC Class. No.: HC79.I5 / M34 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 339.31