If you are a student, a teacher, a journalist, a politician or perhaps just interested in quickly understanding the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), this book is for you.

Through easy-to-understand examples you'll gain a good working knowledge of GDP and economic growth in a very short time.

Lars Gustafsson has for more than a decade been responsible for GDP growth calculations in the Danish National Accounts Department (Statistics Denmark). He holds a M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Copenhagen.