The Hegemony of Growth - The OECD and the Making of the Economic Growth Paradigm - Matthias Schmelzer - Paperback Bog - Cambridge University Press -

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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.