GDP | Ehsan Masood

GDP: The World’s Most Powerful Formula and Why it Must Now Change by Ehsan Masood

"[A] tale of cloak and dagger intrigue, intense rivalries and political machinations you'd expect in a spy thriller." — Engineering & Technology

In this powerfully argued book, science writer Ehsan Masood shows why the world’s most powerful economic formula is failing. For decades, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has rewarded environmental destruction, obscured inequality, and been gamed to the detriment of developing countries, while helping accelerate global warming and biodiversity loss. This book reveals how we can update GDP for a better future.

A More Sustainable Measure for Economic Growth

This book shows how GDP fell from the path its architects intended and how its long-term misapplication has kept large parts of the world in poverty. Now updated with a new chapter, Masood argues with clarity and passion that as the world rebuilds after the global recession, our need for a more sustainable and inclusive measure of economic growth has never been greater. Change must come if we are to break the cycle and build a better future.