Principles of Macroeconomics / Unit 3 MAC 0201 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What GDP Measures
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The idea
Gross domestic product is the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a year.
In practice
Quantities times prices, summed across everything produced.
Where people slip
Every word carries weight. Market value excludes what is not sold, final excludes parts, and within a country excludes what citizens produce abroad.
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