TY - BOOK AU - Masood,Ehsan. TI - The great invention: the story of GDP and the making SN - 9781681771373 U1 - 339.31MAS PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Pegasus Books KW - Gross Domestic Product N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 ER -