How does the difficulty takes of calculation of gross domestic product.
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ONE of Albert Einstein’s greatest insights was that no matter how, where, when or by whom it is measured, the speed of light in a vacuum is constant. Measurements of light’s price, though, are a different matter: they can tell completely different stories depending on when and how they are made.
In the mid 1990s William Nordhaus, an economist at Yale University, looked at two ways of measuring the price of light over the past two centuries. You could do it the way someone calculating GDP would do: by adding up the change over time in the prices of the things people bought to make light. On this basis, he reckoned, the price of light rose by a factor of between three and five between 1800 and 1992. But each innovation in lighting, from candles to tungsten light bulbs, was far more efficient than the last. If you measured the price of light in the way a cost-conscious physicist might, in cents per lumen-hour, it plummeted more than a hundredfold.
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the total monetary or market value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country's borders in a specific time period. As a broad measure of overall domestic production, it functions as a comprehensive scorecard of the country’s economic health.
ECONOMY ECONOMICS
Gross Domestic Product—GDP
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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What Is GDP?
The Basics of GDP
GDP's Significance
Calculating GDP
GDP Based on Spending
GDP Based on Production
GDP Based on Income
GDP vs. GNP vs. GNI
Nominal GDP vs. Real GDP
GDP and PPP
Using GDP Data
GDP and Investing
History of GDP
Criticisms of GDP
Sources for GDP Data
The Bottom Line
What Is GDP?
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the total monetary or market value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country's borders in a specific time period. As a broad measure of overall domestic production, it functions as a comprehensive scorecard of the country’s economic health.
Though GDP is usually calculated on an annual basis, it can be calculated on a quarterly basis as well. In the United States, for example, the government releases an annualized GDP estimate for each quarter and also for an entire year. Most of the individual data sets will also be given in real terms, meaning that the data is adjusted for price changes, and is, therefore, net of inflation.
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What Is GDP?
The Basics of GDP
GDP includes all private and public consumption, government outlays, investments, additions to private inventories, paid-in construction costs, and the foreign balance of trade (exports are added, imports are subtracted).
There are several types of GDP measurements:
Nominal GDP is the measurement of the raw data.
Real GDP takes into account the impact of inflation and allows comparisons of economic output from one year to the next and other comparisons over periods of time.
GDP growth rate is the increase in GDP from quarter to quarter.
GDP per capita measures GDP per person in the national populace; it is a useful way to compare GDP data between various countries.
The balance of trade is one of the key components of a country's (GDP) formula. GDP increases when the total value of goods and services that domestic producers sell to foreigners exceeds the total value of foreign goods and services that domestic consumers buy, otherwise known as a trade surplus. If domestic consumers spend more on foreign products than domestic producers sell to foreign consumers —a trade deficit—then GDP decreases.