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Matthias Schmelzer - The Hegemony of Growth, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

The Hegemony of Growth

The OECD and the Making of the Economic Growth Paradigm

Av Matthias Schmelzer

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In modern society, economic growth is considered to be the primary goal pursued through policymaking. But when and how did this perception become widely adopted among social scientists, politicians and the general public? Focusing on the OECD, one of the least understood international organisations, Schmelzer offers the first transnational study to chart the history of growth discourses. He reveals how the pursuit of GDP growth emerged as a societal goal and the ways in which the methods employed to measure, model and prescribe growth resulted in statistical standards, international policy frameworks and widely accepted norms. Setting his analysis within the context of capitalist development, post-war reconstruction, the Cold War, decolonization, and industrial crisis, The Hegemony of Growth sheds new light on the continuous reshaping of the growth paradigm up to the neoliberal age and adds historical depth to current debates on climate change, inequality and the limits to growth.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2017-10-19
  • Mått: 155 x 230 x 22 mm
  • Vikt: 580 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 398
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781107587557
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Matthias Schmelzer is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. His areas of interests include transnational social and economic history, social movements, and the history of capitalism.

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'In this well-researched intellectual and institutional history, Schmelzer brings to light the story of how Europe and America in the mid-twentieth century embraced the cult of Gross National Product (GNP), and the role of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in the process. By devising the system by which governments keep economic score, economists and bureaucrats revised the goals of economic policy to emphasize, almost to the point of worship, GNP growth. Schmelzer's book explains lucidly how economic policy acquired its topmost priority of the past seventy years.' J. R. McNeill, author of Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World

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