Assa, Jacob - In: Finance and society 4 (2018) 2, pp. 144-158
article argues that GDP is in fact a form of numerical rhetoric. Political messages in such estimates were explicit until the … early twentieth century, but have since become implicit in hidden assumptions. To uncover the narratives built-in to GDP … this single assumption leads to very different narratives regarding the class-balance of workers vs. capitalists, the …