Masood, Ehsan,

The great invention : the story of GDP and the making and unmaking of the modern world / spine title : The great invention. Ehsan Masood. - xxiii, 231 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-226) and index.

Lost history -- The great invention -- GDP and its discontents -- The fight for the formula -- Made in Cambridge -- The Karachi economic miracle -- The talented Mr. Strong --'As vulgar as GDP' -- Exporting Shangri-La -- $33 trillion man -- Stern lessons --'Nothing is more destructive of democracy' -- Unfinished revolution.

'The fascinating story of one of the twentieth-century's most influential and dangerously addictive ideas, told through the lives of those who invented it,'--Amazon.com.

9781681771373 RM134.23


Gross domestic product--History.
Economics.
Economic history.