Current Affairs for UPSC CSE's video: The best books on GDP recommended by David Pilling

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think - https://amzn.to/2yu6Eqg GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History by Diane Coyle - - https://amzn.to/2S5JAq0 Gross Domestic Problem: The Politics Behind the World's Most Powerful Number - https://amzn.to/2PFUi4R The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality - https://amzn.to/2NXAvfW Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond - https://amzn.to/2yuVp0K About the book 1. This book has been recommended by Bill Gates. Hans Rosling explains how media bias, ideological preconceptions and statistical illiteracy makes most people believe in a gloomy and spectacularly wrong worldview. The book carefully explains by data and vivid examples how positive developments are systematically underreported, while disaster news are vastly over-reported. 2. Diane Coyle traces the history of this artificial, abstract, complex, but exceedingly important statistic from its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century precursors through its invention in the 1940s and its postwar golden age, and then through the Great Crash up to today. 3. In Gross Domestic Problem, Lorenzo Fioramonti takes apart the "content" of GDP - what it measures, what it doesn't and why - and reveals the powerful political interests that have allowed it to dominate today's economies. He also shows that an alternative is possible. 4. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty--tells the remarkable story of how, beginning 250 years ago, some parts of the world experienced sustained progress, opening up gaps and setting the stage for today's disproportionately unequal world. Deaton takes an in-depth look at the historical and ongoing patterns behind the health and wealth of nations, and addresses what needs to be done to help those left behind. 5. In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization