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ECONOMIC GROWTH: The long-run expansion of the economy's ability to produce output. This is one of five economic goals, specifically one of the three macro goals (stability and full employment are the other two). Economic growth is made possible by increasing the quantity or quality of the economy's resources (labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurship).
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Lesson 10: Gross Domestic Product | Unit 2: Looking Behind GDP
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Slice B includes economic production that does NOT involve market transactions.- The market value of nonmarket economic production for some goods can be estimated and included in GDP.
- In-kind payments: This is nonmarketed production obtained by business owners or employees in lieu of money payment. Although no market transaction, GDP includes the estimated value of these transactions.
- Owner-occupied housing: The value of owner-occupied housing services are not measured by market transaction. GDP includes the estimate the value of these services.
At least part of slice B is included in GDP.
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VALUE IN EXCHANGE The ability to trade an item or asset, especially money, for other goods and services that can then be used to satisfy wants and needs. Value in exchange means that value (that is, satisfaction) is obtained indirectly through the acquisition of something else. For an item to have value in exchange it need NOT have value in use, value obtained directly from the consumption of a good or service.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a dollar discount store trying to buy either a pair of red and purple designer socks or a T-shirt commemorating Thor Heyerdahl's Pacific crossing aboard the Kon-Tiki. Be on the lookout for slightly overweight pizza delivery guys.
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Only 1% of the U.S. population paid income taxes when the income tax was established in 1914.
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