Gross Domestic Problem
The Politics Behind the World's Most Powerful Number
(Sprache: Englisch)
Lorenzo Fioramonti takes apart the 'content' of GDP - and reveals the powerful political interests that have allowed it to dominate today's economies.
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Lorenzo Fioramonti takes apart the 'content' of GDP - and reveals the powerful political interests that have allowed it to dominate today's economies.
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Gross domestic product is arguably the best-known statistic in the contemporary world, and certainly amongst the most powerful. It drives government policy and sets priorities in a variety of vital social fields - from schooling to healthcare. Yet for perhaps the first time since it was invented in the 1930s, this popular icon of economic growth has come to be regarded by a wide range of people as a 'problem'. After all, does our quality of life really improve when our economy grows 2 or 3 per cent? Can we continue to sacrifice the environment to safeguard a vision of the world based on the illusion of infinite economic growth?Lorenzo Fioramonti takes apart the 'content' of GDP - what it measures, what it doesn't and why - and reveals the powerful political interests that have allowed it to dominate today's economies. In doing so, he demonstrates just how little relevance GDP has to moral principles such as equity, social justice and redistribution, and shows that an alternative is possible, as evinced by the 'de-growth' movement and initiatives such as transition towns.A startling insight into the politics of a number that has come to dominate our everyday lives.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Gross Domestic Problem “
Introduction: The world's most powerful number
1. The history of GDP: from crisis to crisis
2. The Frankenstein syndrome
3. The global quest to dethrone GDP
4. Change from below
Conclusion: Supremacy and resistance
Autoren-Porträt von Lorenzo Fioramonti
Fioramonti, LorenzoLorenzo Fioramonti (@globalreboot) is associate professor and Jean Monnet chair in regional integration and governance studies at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, where he directs the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation. He is also senior fellow at the Centre for Social Investment of the University of Heidelberg and at the Hertie School of Governance, Germany, as well as associate fellow at the United Nations University. He is the author of several books about development policies, global and regional governance, alternative economies and social progress indicators, including Gross Domestic Problem: The Politics Behind the World's Most Powerful Number (Zed Books, 2013). He blogs at www.globalreboot.org.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Lorenzo Fioramonti
- 2013, 224 Seiten, Maße: 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Zed Books
- ISBN-10: 1780322720
- ISBN-13: 9781780322728
Sprache:
Englisch
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