The Growth Delusion
David Pilling
Bloomsbury Publishing
<p><b>A revelatory and entertaining book about the pitfalls of how we measure our economy and how to correct them, by an award-winning editor of <i>The Financial Times</i></b><br/><b><i><br/></i></b><b>'A near miracle' Ha-Joon Chang, author of <i>23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism</i><br/><br/></b>In <i>The Growth Delusion</i>,<i> </i>author and prize-winning journalist David Pilling explores how economists and their cult of growth have hijacked our policy-making and infiltrated our thinking about what makes societies work. Our policies are geared relentlessly towards increasing our standard measure of growth, Gross Domestic Product. By this yardstick we have never been wealthier or happier. So why doesn't it feel that way? Why are we living in such fractured times, with global populism on the rise and wealth inequality as stark as ever?<br/><br/>In a book that is simultaneously trenchant, thought-provoking and entertaining, Pilling argues that we need to measure our...</p>