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GDP: The Number That Rules Nations
A Citizen's Guide to Numbers, Narratives and National Reality
A growth figure is announced and within hours it is a headline, a speech and an argument. But what actually grew? This book goes to the statistical release itself and teaches you to read it — what GDP counts, what it leaves out, what happens when the base year changes and the ruler itself moves, and where the honest line falls between a revision, a disagreement and a manipulation. It names no political party anywhere.
- The three ways one economy is measured
- Base years, deflators and imputations in plain arithmetic
- Download the official data and rebuild the headline yourself
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