The Sum of the Satisfactions
Canada in the Age of National Accounting
Format:Hardback
Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
Published:1st Jun '08
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In our age of measurement, economic numbers - productivity, inflation, unemployment, gross domestic product - inform the decisions of both citizen and state. This book shows how Canadian statisticians have been in the forefront of using numbers to build a better economic world.A lively, historical account of how Canadians came to be world leaders in national accounting - the political arithmetic of modern societies.
"Duncan McDowall has made a subject that is potentially as attractive as mud into a lively and accessible story which held my interest from start to finish." Charlotte Gray, best-selling author of Reluctant Genius, The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell "It is a wonderful story. It is far more interesting, and even exciting, than I had ever imagined it could be! a book that I could not put down more than I could a really interesting novel about international intrigue." Richard Lipsey, Simon Fraser University
ISBN: 9780773532885
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 670g
328 pages