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In one lifetime GDP, or gross domestic product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. It is our universal yardstick of progress. As The Little Big Number demonstrates, this spells trouble. While economies and cultures measure their performance by it, GDP ignores central facts such as quality, costs, and purpose.

'A beautifully accessible exploration of how numbers shape our lives, and the importance of accurately interpreting the statistics we are fed.' - Angela Saini, author of Superior Even if you don't consider yourself a numbers person, you are a numbers person. The time has come to put numbers in...

"New Biggest Prime Number Equals 2 to the 74 Mil ... Uh, It's Big" is from the January 21, 2016 Arts section of The New York Times. It was written by Kenneth Chang and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.