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GDP
A Brief but Affectionate History
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ISBN-13:
9780691169859
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.11.2015
Seiten:
184
Autor:
Diane Coyle
Gewicht:
244 g
Format:
216x136x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Diane Coyle leitet eine Beratungsfirma, lehrt an der London School of Economics und schreibt regelmäßig eine Kolumne für den Independent, bei dem sie acht Jahre lang Wirtschaftseditor war. Im Jahr 2000 erhielt sie den renommierten Wincott Award für Financial Journalism.
Diane Coyle traces the history of this artificial, abstract, complex, but exceedingly important statistic from its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century precursors through its invention in the 1940s and its postwar golden age, and then through the Great Crash up to today. The reader learns why this standard measure of the size of a countrys economy was invented, how it has changed over the decades, and what its strengths and weaknesses are. The book explains why even small changes in GDP can decide elections, influence major political decisions, and determine whether countries can keep borrowing or be thrown into recession. The book ends by making the case that GDP was a good measure for the twentieth century but is increasingly inappropriate for a twenty-first-century economy driven by innovation, services, and intangible goods.