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- ISBN
- 9780691169859
- Book Title
- Gdp : a Brief but Affectionate History-Revised and Expanded Edition
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Features
- Revised
- Genre
- Business & Economics
- Topic
- Economic History, Economics / Macroeconomics, Economics / General, Econometrics, Statistics
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 184 Pages
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How GDP came to rule our lives--and why it needs to change 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? And why was Greece's chief statistician charged with treason in 2013 for apparently doing nothing more than trying to accurately report the size of his country's economy? The answers to all these questions lie in the way we define and measure national economies around the world: Gross Domestic Product. This entertaining and informative book tells the story of GDP, making sense of a statistic that appears constantly in the news, business, and politics, and that seems to rule our lives--but that hardly anyone actually understands. 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 country's 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.
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Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691169853
ISBN-13
9780691169859
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217120133
Product Key Features
Book Title
Gdp : a Brief but Affectionate History-Revised and Expanded Edition
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Revised
Topic
Economic History, Economics / Macroeconomics, Economics / General, Econometrics, Statistics
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Business & Economics
Number of Pages
184 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
8 Oz
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Hc79.I5c725 2015
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Reviews
Diane Coyle's new book, GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History , is a timely contribution to discussions of modern economic performance. ---Arnold Kling, American, "[A] little charmer of a book . . . GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History is just what the title promises. . . . Cowperthwaite himself would nod in agreement over Ms. Coyle's informed discussion of what the GDP misses and how it misfires. . . . Ms. Coyle--a graceful and witty writer, by the way--recounts familiar problems and adds some new ones. . . . [E]xcellent." --James Grant, Wall Street Journal, GDP is a thought-provoking account of how the gross domestic product statistic came to be so important. . . . The book is a useful and timely contribution. ---Louise Rawlings, Economic Record, As a potted history of approaches to quantifying national output from the 18th century onward, GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History deserves high marks. It is particularly edifying to learn about the military motivation behind the initial attempts. ---Martin S. Fridson, Financial Analysts Journal, [I]t is interesting and important, particularly when it comes to the emphasis now given to GDP, and the inadequacies of this now time-honoured measurement of how our economies are doing. . . . With clarity and precision, she explains its strengths and weaknesses. ---Peter Day, BBC News Business, Diane Coyle has bravely attempted in a recent book to make the subject once more accessible, and even interesting. ---John Kay, Financial Times, "Diane Coyle's new book, GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History , is a timely contribution to discussions of modern economic performance." --Arnold Kling, American, "In a charming and accessible new book, Diane Coyle untangles the history, assumptions, challenges and shortcomings of this popular rhetorical device, which has become so central to policy debates around the world. . . . Coyle's book is a good primer for the average citizen as well as the seasoned economist." --Adam Gurri, Ümlaut, "[T]his is as engaging a book about GDP as you could ever hope to read. It falls into that genre of books that are 'biographies of things'--be they histories of longitude, the number zero or the potato--and is both enlightening and entertaining." --Andrew Sawers, FS Focus, [A] little charmer of a book. . . . GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History is just what the title promises. . . . Cowperthwaite himself would nod in agreement over Ms. Coyle's informed discussion of what the GDP misses and how it misfires. . . . Ms. Coyle--a graceful and witty writer, by the way--recounts familiar problems and adds some new ones. . . . [E]xcellent. ---James Grant, Wall Street Journal, "Diane Coyle renders GDP accessible and introduces a much-needed historical perspective to the discourse of what we measure and why. A must-read for those interested in the far-reaching impact of GDP on the global economy, just as we seek ways to go beyond it." --Angel Gurría, secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, "Diane Coyle has bravely attempted in a recent book to make the subject once more accessible, and even interesting." --John Kay, Financial Times, [T]his is as engaging a book about GDP as you could ever hope to read. It falls into that genre of books that are 'biographies of things'--be they histories of longitude, the number zero or the potato--and is both enlightening and entertaining. ---Andrew Sawers, FS Focus, "[I]t is interesting and important, particularly when it comes to the emphasis now given to GDP, and the inadequacies of this now time-honoured measurement of how our economies are doing. . . . With clarity and precision, she explains its strengths and weaknesses." --Peter Day, BBC News Business, Winner of the 2015 Bronze Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards One of The Wall Street Journal 's Best Books of 2014 One of Choice 's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014 One of FA-mag.com 's Books of the Year 2014 One of "The Books Quartz Read" in 2014 One of Minnpost.com 's 'Three (plus) books for the econ buff on your list' 2014 Longlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2014, "[A] little charmer of a book. . . . GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History is just what the title promises. . . . Cowperthwaite himself would nod in agreement over Ms. Coyle's informed discussion of what the GDP misses and how it misfires. . . . Ms. Coyle--a graceful and witty writer, by the way--recounts familiar problems and adds some new ones. . . . [E]xcellent." --James Grant, Wall Street Journal, "Coyle has written an engaging, introductory to mid-level book on the GDP that makes sense of a statistic that hardly anyone actually understands. . . . It does not require any training in economics, but it covers many topics that even professional economists would find beneficial, including an argument that GDP is an increasingly inappropriate measure for the 21st century." -- Choice, Anyone who wants to know how GDP and the SNA have come to play such important roles in economic policy-making will gain from reading Coyle's book. As will anyone who wants to gain more understanding of the concept's strengths and weaknesses. ---Nicholas Oulton, Science, "Coyle does good work explicating a topic that few understand, even if it affects each of us daily. A pleasure for facts-and-numbers geeks, though accessibly written and full of meaningful real-world examples." -- Kirkus Reviews, "Diane Coyle's book is as good a simple guide as we are likely to see." --Samuel Brittan, Financial Times, " GDP is a thought-provoking account of how the gross domestic product statistic came to be so important. . . . The book is a useful and timely contribution." --Louise Rawlings, Economic Record, "Anyone who wants to know how GDP and the SNA have come to play such important roles in economic policy-making will gain from reading Coyle's book. As will anyone who wants to gain more understanding of the concept's strengths and weaknesses." --Nicholas Oulton, Science, Coyle does good work explicating a topic that few understand, even if it affects each of us daily. A pleasure for facts-and-numbers geeks, though accessibly written and full of meaningful real-world examples., GDP is, as Diane Coyle points out in her entertaining and informative GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History , a bodge, an ongoing argument. ---John Lanchester, London Review of Books, In a charming and accessible new book, Diane Coyle untangles the history, assumptions, challenges and shortcomings of this popular rhetorical device, which has become so central to policy debates around the world. . . . Coyle's book is a good primer for the average citizen as well as the seasoned economist. ---Adam Gurri, Ümlaut, "Well written, interesting, and useful, this book will appeal to many readers. I learned a lot from it." --Robert Hahn, University of Oxford, "This is an engaging and witty but also profoundly important book. Diane Coyle clearly and elegantly explains the fundamental difficulties of GDP--and how this headline figure is liable to radical change by apparently simple changes in method. She also provides a nice treatment of alternative proposals such as happiness surveys." --Harold James, author of Making the European Monetary Union, The strongest part of the book charts the development of national accounting from the 17th century through to the creation of GDP itself and its literal and metaphorical rises and falls in the 20th and 21st centuries. . . . This is lively and surprisingly readable stuff. ---Eilís Lawlor, LSE Review of Books, " GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History is a fascinating 140-page book that I cannot recommend highly enough. This is simply the best book on GDP that I've ever seen." --John Mauldin, Diane Coyle's book is as good a simple guide as we are likely to see. ---Samuel Brittan, Financial Times, Winner of the 2015 Bronze Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards One of The Wall Street Journal 's Best Books of 2014 One of Choice 's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014 One of FA-mag.com 's Books of the Year 2014 One of "The Books Quartz Read" in 2014 One of Minnpost.com 's 'Three (plus) books for the econ buff on your list' 2014 Longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2014, "Countries are judged by their success in producing GDP. But what is it and where do those numbers reported on television come from? Diane Coyle makes GDP come to life--we see its strengths and its fallibilities, and we learn to understand and respect both." --Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, 2003-2013, "As a potted history of approaches to quantifying national output from the 18th century onward, GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History deserves high marks. It is particularly edifying to learn about the military motivation behind the initial attempts." --Martin S. Fridson, Financial Analysts Journal, Coyle has written an engaging, introductory to mid-level book on the GDP that makes sense of a statistic that hardly anyone actually understands. . . . It does not require any training in economics, but it covers many topics that even professional economists would find beneficial, including an argument that GDP is an increasingly inappropriate measure for the 21st century., "The strongest part of the book charts the development of national accounting from the 17th century through to the creation of GDP itself and its literal and metaphorical rises and falls in the 20th and 21st centuries. . . . This is lively and surprisingly readable stuff." --Eilís Lawlor, LSE Review of Books, "GDP is, as Diane Coyle points out in her entertaining and informative GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History , a bodge, an ongoing argument." --John Lanchester, London Review of Books
Copyright Date
2016
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2015-936928
Dewey Decimal
339.3/109
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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Yes
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