The Hegemony of Growth

Matthias (Universitat Zurich) Schmelzer

Cambridge University Press, 2017

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How did the pursuit of economic growth become the core goal of economic policymaking? Focussing on the OECD, Schmelzer offers a first transnational history of growth discourse, tracing how the methods employed to measure, model and prescribe growth resulted in new statistical standards, international policy frameworks and widely accepted norms.

ISBN-13
9781107587557
ISBN-10
1107587557
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2017
Publication date
2017-10-19
Pages
398
Dimensions
152x229x24
Weight
580