1st Edition
The Financialization of GDP Implications for economic theory and policy
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: The Economic Problem with GDP
Chapter 1. The Ubiquity, Importance and Uniqueness of National Accounting
Chapter 2. National Accounting as a Historically and Politically Contingent Art
Chapter 3. Policy-Based Evidence: A Political History of National Accounts
Chapter 4. The Financialization of GDP
Chapter 5. GDP on FIRE: Financialization, Stagnation and Leakages from Aggregate Demand
Chapter 6. The Distributional Impacts of FGDP
Conclusion
Biography
Jacob Assa is Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations, New York. Born and raised in Israel, Jacob attended Hunter College in New York, and has been working at the United Nations since 1999. He received his master’s and PhD degrees in economics at the New School for Social Research.
