… by buying my new book, [amazon_link id=”0691156794″ target=”_blank” ]GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History[/amazon_link]. The ‘official’ publication date is a couple of weeks away still, but Amazon has decided to start shipping. Order now and you can get it today!
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If you want to sample it before buying, Princeton University Press has made the introduction available online. In Aeon magazine this week I have an article, Growing Pains, about one of the themes.
I’m doing a few talks about it too – starting with the Warwick Economic Summit this evening. There’s an evening discussion for the Society of Business Economists on 13th February round table at the CSFI in London on 4th March.
Looks good and very interesting. I have begun to wonder about a theory of leakages. In and out and absent from the calculations. As they are either not realised or disregarded for various reasons they make for a fundamental distortion of perceptions, My idea is that there has been a large step change in both the size and nature of these in the last couple of decades.
What changes?
Dear Prof Diane,
as you pointed out, in many developing countries informal economy is difficult to capture, is GDP still reliable?
may ask a favour, could you talk about some new economic methodology books?
Ahmad