GDP a brief but affectionate history

By:

Coyle, Diane

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Princeton Princeton University Press 2014Description: ix, 167 p. illustrations 22 cmISBN:

9780691169859

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

History.

DDC classification:

339.3109 23 CO-G

LOC classification:

HC79.I5 C725 2015

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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Item type	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Print	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	General Books	Main Library	339.3109 CO-G (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	06/04/2025	137439

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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