GDP : : A Brief but Affectionate History - Revised and expanded Edition / / Diane Coyle.

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? And why was...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©2016
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:Revised and expanded
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (184 p.) :; 2 halftones. 2 line illus. 2 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Note on the Paperback Edition
  • Introduction
  • 1. From the Eighteenth Century to the 1930s: War and Depression
  • 2. 1945 to 1975: The Golden Age
  • 3. The Legacy of the 1970s: A Crisis of Capitalism
  • 4. 1995 to 2005: The New Paradigm
  • 5. Our Times: The Great Crash
  • 6. The Future: Twenty-first- Century GDP
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index