Macroeconomics 2: GDP & What Counts
Planet Money Summer School
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What Is GDP?
Economists use gross domestic product (g d p) to measure how well a country is doing. The number has become this kind of shorthand for talking about where the economy is. Some things that get left out create these sort of unintentional incentives, says luigi sangales. Christian brodi: "I think every tricha wants to make your nation look smaller than other countries' economies"
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