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020 _a9781681771373
082 _a339.31MAS
100 _aMasood,Ehsan.
245 4 _aThe great invention
_bthe story of GDP and the making
260 _aNew York
_bPegasus Books
_c2016
300 _axxiii, 231p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. ; 22 cm
500 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aThe 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.
650 _aGross Domestic Product
999 _c6713
_d6713