ISBN10: 0691156794, ISBN13: 9780691156798, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2014]

New York: Princeton University Press, Date: 2014. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x0x9. Second printing. Top of dust jacket slightly worn. 2014 Hard Cover. 159 pp. 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 ...

Princeton University Press. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691156794 9780691156798 [US]

Princeton University Press, Date: 2014. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2014. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691156794 9780691156798 [US]

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, Date: 2014. (2014), 159pp, illus., slight rubbing to dj, underlining throughout.. Hard Cover. Very Good -/Very Good. 2014. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691156794 9780691156798 [US]

Paperback. Very Good. ISBN 0691156794 9780691156798 [GB]

ISBN10: 0691156794, ISBN13: 9780691156798, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover - Great overall condition. Minor cosmetic wear. No noteworthy blemishes. No writing.
[Highland, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2014]