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the techniques used to measure the overall production of the ecoonmy and other related variables for the nation as a whole
national income accounting
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the total market value of all final goods and services produced annually within the boundaries of the United States, whether by U.S. or foreign-supplied resources
gross domestic product (GDP)
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products that are purchased for resale or further processing or manufacturing
intermediate goods
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goods that have been purchased for final use and not for resale or further processing or manufacturing
final goods
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wrongly including the value of intermediate goods in the gross domestic product; counting the same good or service more than once
multiple counting
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the value of the product sold by a firm less the value of the products (materials) purchased and used by the firm to produce the product
value added
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the method that adds all expenditures made for final goods and services to measure the gross domestic product
expenditures approach
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the method that adds all the income generated by the production of final goods and services to measure the gross domestic product
income approach
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the expenditures of households for durable and nondurable consumer goods and services
personal consumption expenditures (C)
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expenditures for newly produced capital goods (such as machinery, equipment, tools, and buildings) and for additions to inventories
gross private domestic investment (Ig)
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gross private domestic investment less consumption of fixed capital; the addition to the nation's stock of capital during the year
net private domestic investment
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expenditures by government for goods and services that government consumes in providing public goods and for public (or social) capital that has a long lifetime; the expenditures of all governments in the economy for those final goods and services
government purchases (G)
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exports minus imports
net exports (Xn)
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total income earned by resource suppliers for their contributions to gross domestic product; equal to the gross domestic product minus nonincome charges, minus net foreign factor income
national income
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such taxes as sales, excise, and business property taxes, license fees, and tariffs that firms treat as costs of producing a product and pass on (in whole or in part) to buyers by charging higher prices
indirect business taxes
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an estimate of the amount of capital worn out or used up (consumed) in producing the gross domestic product; also called depreciation
consumption of fixed capital
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gross domestic product less the part of the year's output that is needed to replace the capital goods worn out in producing the output; the nation's total output available for consumption or additions to the capital stock
net domestic purchase (NDP)
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the earned and unearned income available to resource suppliers and other before the payment of personal taxes
personal income (PI)
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personal income less personal taxes; income available for personal consumption expenditures and personal saving
disposable income (DI)
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the GDP measured in terms of the price level at the time of measurement (unadjusted for inflation)
nominal GDP
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an index number that shows how the weighted-average price of a "market basket" of goods changes over time
price index
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gross domestic product adjusted for inflation; gross domestic product in a year divided by the GDP price index for that year, the index expressed as a decimal
real GDP
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an index that measures the prices of a fixed "market basket" of some 300 goods and services bought by a "typical" consumer
consumer price index (CPI)
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found by dividing real GDP by population
per capita output
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