Gross domestic problem : the politics behind the world's most powerful number / Lorenzo Pioramonti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fioramonti, Lorenzo.

Series:

Economic controversies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gross domestic product.

Gross domestic product--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

viii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books, [2013]

Summary:

Gross domestic product is one of the best-known and most powerful statistics in the contemporary world. It drives government policy on a variety of vital areas, from health to education. Yet perhaps for the first time since its invention in the 1930s, a wide range of people regard this icon of economic growth as a problem.

Gross Domestic Problem unpacks GDP - what it measures, what it doesn't, and why - and reveals the powerful politics that have allowed it to dominate today's economies. Lorenzo Fioramonti demonstrates just how little GDP has to do with equity and social and environmental justice, and shows that an alternative is possible. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The history of GDP: from crisis to crisis 17

Chapter 2 The Frankenstein syndrome 50

Chapter 3 The global quest to dethrone GDP 82

Chapter 4 Change from below 119.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-191) and index.

ISBN:

9781780322735

1780322739

9781780322728

1780322720

OCLC:

806013610