Book : Gdp A Brief But Affectionate History - Revised And...

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Princeton University Press

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Review Winner of the 2015 Bronze Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book AwardsOne of The Wall Street Journal’s Best Books of 2014One of Choices Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014One of FA-mag ’s Books of the Year 2014One of The Books Quartz Read in 2014One of Minnpost ’s ‘Three (plus) books for the econ buff on your list’ 2014Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2014GDP is, as Diane Coyle points out in her entertaining and informative GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History, a bodge, an ongoing argument.---John Lanchester, London Review of Books[A] little charmer of a book. . . . GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History is just what the title promises. . . . Cowperthwaite himself would nod in agreement over Ms. Coyles informed discussion of what the GDP misses and how it misfires. . . . Ms. Coyle--a graceful and witty writer, by the way--recounts familiar problems and adds some new ones. . . . [E]xcellent.---James Grant, Wall Street JournalAnyone who wants to know how GDP and the SNA have come to play such important roles in economic policy-making will gain from reading Coyles book. As will anyone who wants to gain more understanding of the concepts strengths and weaknesses.---Nicholas Oulton, ScienceDiane Coyles new book, GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History, is a timely contribution to discussions of modern economic performance.---Arnold Kling, American[E]xcellent.---Adam Creighton, The AustralianDiane Coyles book is as good a simple guide as we are likely to see.---Samuel Brittan, Financial TimesCoyle does good work explicating a topic that few understand, even if it affects each of us daily. A pleasure for facts-and-numbers geeks, though accessibly written and full of meaningful real-world examples. Kirkus Reviews[S]mart and lucid. . . . [S]hort but masterful.---Todd G. Buchholz, Finance & Development[G]reat (and well-timed) new book.---Uri Friedman, The AtlanticIn a charming and accessible new book, Diane Coyle untangles the history, assumptions, challenges and shortcomings of this popular rhetorical device, which has become so central to policy debates around the world. . . . Coyles book is a good primer for the average citizen as well as the seasoned economist.---Adam Gurri, Ümlaut[I]t is interesting and important, particularly when it comes to the emphasis now given to GDP, and the inadequacies of this now time-honoured measurement of how our economies are doing. . . . With clarity and precision, she explains its strengths and weaknesses.---Peter Day, BBC News BusinessDiane Coyle has bravely attempted in a recent book to make the subject once more accessible, and even interesting.---John Kay, Financial Times[T]his is as engaging a book about GDP as you could ever hope to read. It falls into that genre of books that are biographies of things--be they histories of longitude, the number zero or the potato--and is both enlightening and entertaining.---Andrew Sawers, FS FocusAs a potted history of approaches to quantifying national output from the 18th century onward, GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History deserves high marks. It is particularly edifying to learn about the military motivation behind the initial attempts.---Martin S. Fridson, Financial Analysts JournalThe strongest part of the book charts the development of national accounting from the 17th century through to the creation of GDP itself and its literal and metaphorical rises and falls in the 20th and 21st centuries. . . . This is lively and surprisingly readable stuff.---Eilis Lawlor, LSE Review of BooksCoyle has written an engaging, introductory to mid-level book on the GDP that makes sense of a statistic that hardly anyone actually understands. . . . It does not require any training in economics, but it covers many topics that even professional economists would find beneficial, including an argument that GDP is an increasingly inappropriate measure fo