Assa, Jacob - In: Finance and society 4 (2018) 2, pp. 144-158
their models, while aggregate indicators such as GDP failed in spite (or perhaps because) of their heavy emphasis on … financially driven growth. In contrast to both critics and proponents of GDP who see it as a purely statistical measure, this … article argues that GDP is in fact a form of numerical rhetoric. Political messages in such estimates were explicit until the …
