The gross domestic product (GDP) of a nation is an estimate of the total value of all the goods and services it produces during a specific period, usually a quarter or a year. Its greatest use is as a ...

Real gross domestic product is often a more accurate reflection of the output of an economy than nominal GDP. By eliminating ...

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This is an instructive story about the metrology of macroeconomic measurements. From the point of view of hard sciences, the economics profession does a great counterproductive work in order to hide ...

In today’s WSJ, Harvard University economics professor Martin Feldstein has an excellent op-ed (“The U.S. Underestimates Growth“) about a recent topic covered in a series of posts on CD — how “the ...

India’s GDP growth rate for the quarter ended June, which came in at 7.8% in real terms, surpassed all expectations. But the growth in GDP by another measure has economists and policymakers worried: ...

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