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GDP : a brief but affectionate history / Diane Coyle.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 159 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780691156798 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  • 0691156794 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 339.3109
LOC classification:
  • HC 79 C881g 2014
Contents:
From the 18th 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: 21st 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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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HC 79 C881g 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000117209

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-152) and index.

From the 18th 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: 21st 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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