1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910164861803321

Autore

Bell Virginia <1943->

Titolo

Midlife is not a crisis : using astrology to thrive in the second half of life / / Virginia Bell ; foreword by Steven Forrest

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newburyport, Massachusetts : , : Weiser Books, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-63341-046-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

133.5

Soggetti

Astrology

Middle age

Aging

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction to the cycles: our power years -- An overview of astrology -- The cycles -- The Saturn return: growing up and getting real -- The midlife journey: breakdowns and breakthroughs -- The Chiron return: the youth of old age (ages 49-51) -- The second Saturn return: the new elder (age 58) -- The closing Uranus square: a second wind (ages 62-63) -- The seventies: real problems, real possibilities -- The Uranus return at eighty-four: the homecoming -- Profiles.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822892003321

Autore

Fioramonti Lorenzo

Titolo

Gross domestic problem [[electronic resource] ] : the politics behind the world's most powerful number / / Lorenzo Fioramonti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2013

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021

ISBN

1-350-22056-6

1-283-92414-5

1-78032-274-7

Descrizione fisica

viii, 200 p. : ill

Collana

Economic controversies

Disciplina

339.31

Soggetti

Gross national product

Gross domestic product

Industrial productivity - Forecasting

Social research & statistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-191) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The world's most powerful number -- The history of GDP: from crisis to crisis -- The Frankenstein syndrome -- The global quest to dethrone GDP -- Change from below -- Supremacy and resistance.

About the series; About the author; Title page; Copyright; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction The world's most powerful number; What is GDP?; The politics of GDP; GDP and its critics; Chapter 1 The history of GDP: from crisis to crisis; Numbers and politics: the pre-history of GDP; GDP as a 'war machine'; Manipulation and the 'stats war'; Globalization of national income and the global economic crisis; The greatest invention of the twentieth century?; Chapter 2 The Frankenstein syndrome; Taming the monster; Figure 2.1 GDP growth in the USA.

Sommario/riassunto

"Gross domestic product is one of the best-known and most powerful statistics in the contemporary world. It drives government policy on a variety of vital areas, from health to education. Yet perhaps for the first time since its invention in the 1930s, a wide range of people regard this icon of economic growth as a problem. Gross Domestic Problem



unpacks GDP -- what it measures, what it doesn't, and why -- and reveals the powerful politics that have allowed it to dominate today's economies. Lorenzo Fioramonti demonstrates just how little GDP has to do with equity and social and environmental justice, and shows that an alternative is possible."--Provided by publisher.