This book offers a comprehensible overview of essential theories in the history of economic thought. The discussion covers economic ideas from ancient times to neoliberalism. Univ. Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Gerhard Kolb(Universität Hildesheim)

In The Power of a Single Number, Philipp Lepenies tells the lively, unpredictable history of GDP's political acceptance—and eventual dominance. Since it was first widely used in the mid-twentieth century, GDP (gross domestic product) has become the world's most powerful statistical indicator...