Cogs and Monsters von Coyle, Diane

A textbook that examines how societies reach decisions about the use and allocation of economic resourcesWhile economic research emphasizes the importance of governmental institutions for growth and progress, conventional public policy...

"The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters" von Diane Coyle ist ein Buch, das sich mit der Frage beschäftigt, wie wir Fortschritt und Wohlstand in modernen Gesellschaften messen. Coyle kritisiert die traditionelle Fixierung...

Diane Coyle traces the history of this artificial, abstract, complex, but exceedingly important statistic from its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century precursors through its invention in the 1940s and its postwar golden age, and then...