TY - BOOK AU - Coyle,Diane TI - GDP: a brief but affectionate history SN - 9780691156798 (hardcover : acid-free paper) AV - HC 79 C881g 2014 U1 - 339.3109 PY - 2014///] CY - Princeton, Oxford PB - Princeton University Press KW - Gross domestic product KW - History KW - Economic history KW - Economics KW - Econometrics KW - Producto interno bruto KW - Historia KW - Historia económica N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -