GDP: The World's Most Powerful Formula and Why it Must Now Change - Softcover

Masood, Ehsan

 
9781785787119: GDP: The World's Most Powerful Formula and Why it Must Now Change
Softcover
ISBN 10: 178578711X ISBN 13: 9781785787119
Verlag: Icon Books, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

'[A] tale of cloak and dagger intrigue, intense rivalries and political machinations you'd expect in a spy thriller.' Engineering & Technology

Gross Domestic Product is failing. For decades it has rewarded environmental destruction and obscured inequality. Its formula can be-and has been-gamed to the detriment of developing countries.

In this powerfully argued book, now updated with a new chapter, science writer Ehsan Masood shows how GDP fell from the path envisaged by its architects, and how its long-term misapplication has kept large parts of the world in poverty, while helping accelerate global warming and biodiversity loss.

As the world rebuilds after the coronavirus pandemic and the accompanying global recession, our need for a more sustainable and inclusive measure of economic growth has never been greater. Change must come if we are to break the cycle. With clarity and passion, Masood shows how we can update GDP for a better future.

[previously published as The Great Invention in North America]

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Ehsan Masood is a senior editor at the science journal Nature. He is a former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and has written and presented documentary programmes for BBC Radio 4. His previous books include Science and Islam: A History (Icon, 2017).

Ehsan Masood is a senior editor at the science journal Nature. He is a former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and has written and presented documentary programmes for BBC Radio 4. His previous books include Science and Islam: A History (Icon, 2017).

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Verlag
Icon Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
178578711X
ISBN 13 
9781785787119
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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