Book notes: The power of a single number, by Philipp Lepenies
Lepenies offers a brief but very readable treatment of GDP's political history
Philipp Lepenies, The power of a single number: A political history of GDP, Columbia University Press, 2016, 186 pages
The use of gross domestic product (GDP) has faced unusually intense scrutiny from academia and elsewhere over the past few years, with some expressing concern at the central place this ‘single number' has claimed in political discourse. The UK's dabbling with ‘gross national happiness' and the European Commission's ‘beyond GDP' project point to a certain dissatisfaction.
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