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ACCUMULATION: The process of acquiring an item and adding that item to others previously acquired. In an economic context this most often refers to the accumulation of capital, as in the phrase "capital accumulation." However, it is also used in the context of consumer durable goods, financial assets, money, wealth, and a host of other "stock" variables. When applied to capital, the process of accumulation occurs through investment.
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Lesson 10: Gross Domestic Product | Unit 5: Issues
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- The importance of GDP as an indicator of addressing the scarcity problem and in the analysis of business cycle instability.
- Deficiencies in measuring GDP: (1) it is only an indicator that requires interpretation and analysis, (2) it does not measure the distribution of production, and (3) it does not necessarily measure the satisfaction obtained from production.
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RENTAL INCOME OF PERSONS The official item in the National Income and Product Accounts maintained by the Bureau of Economics Analysis measuring rent earned by the household sector for supplying land and related factor services. This is one of five official factor payments making up national income. The other four are compensation of employees, net interest, corporate profits, and proprietors' income. Rental income of persons is typically the smallest of the five factor payment categories, usually less than 5 percent of national income.
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