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The world's most powerful number: An assessment of 80 years of GDP ideology (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate )
Author(s) -
Fioramonti Lorenzo
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
anthropology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-8322
pISSN - 0268-540X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8322.12098
Subject(s) - gross domestic product , ideology , corporate governance , product (mathematics) , economic governance , real gross domestic product , history , political science , economics , law , macroeconomics , politics , management , mathematics , geometry
Economic measurements and indicators play an important role in governance. As time passes, some of these indicators, like the gross domestic product (GDP), have come to shape our lives more than we can imagine. Here Lorenzo Fioramonti, the author of two books on economic indicators, is invited to reflect on the 80th anniversary of GDP.