The great invention the story of GDP and the making
- New York Pegasus Books 2016
- xxiii, 231p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The world?s principal measure of the health of economies is gross domestic product, or GDP: the sum of what all of us spend every day, from the contents of our weekly shopping to large capital spending by businesses. GDP also includes the myriad things that our governments pay for, from libraries and road-line painting to naval dockyards and nuclear weapons.