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Chapter 4- Measuring GDP and Economic Growth
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Economics
Undergraduate 2
12/08/2011

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Term
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Definition
the market value of the final goods and services produced within a country in a given time period
-compensation of employees + net interest + rental income + depreciation + corporate profits + proprietors income + indirect taxes - subsidies
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Final goods (or service) vs Intermediate good
Definition
Final good (or service): an item that is bought by its final user during a specified time period ex: Ford truck

Intermediate good (or service): an item that is produced by one firm, bought by another firm, and used as a component of a final good or service ex: Firestone tire
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Expenditure approach
Definition
measures GDP as the sum of consumption expenditure(C), investment(I), government expenditure on goods and services(G), and net exports of goods and services(X-M)

C+I+G+(X-M)

-aggregate expenditure: measures the dollar value of purchases of final goods and services
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Income approach
Definition
measures GDP by summing the incomes that firms pay households for the services of the factors of production they hire:
-wages for labor, interest for capital, rent for land, and profit for entrepreneurship (blue flow)
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Real GDP per person (per capita)
Definition
-real GDP divided by the population
-tells us the value of goods and services that the average person can enjoy
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Two ways to measure GDP
Definition
1) expenditure on goods and services (expenditure approach)
2) income earned producing goods and services (income approach)
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The growth rate of real GDP contributes to an improved standard of living because?
Definition
-more resources are available to devote to health care services
-the average person can enjoy an increasing value of consumption goods and services
-more resources are available to devote to improving the environment
Term
Income and production activities not counted in real GDP
-relevance?
Definition
might make real GDP an unreliable indicator of the standard of living
-household production
-underground economic activity
-health and life expectancy
-leisure time
-environmental quality
-political freedom and social justice
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Largest component of GDP
Definition
Personal consumption expenditures
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