What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
Picture the economy as a giant supermarket, with billions of goods and services inside. At the checkout line, you watch as the cashier rings up the price for each finished good or service sold. What have you just observed?
The cashier is computing a very important number: gross domestic product, or
GDP.
GDP is the market value of all finished goods and services, produced within a country in a year.
But, what does "market value" mean? And what defines a "finished good"?
These, and more questions, percolate inside your head.
Meanwhile, the cashier starts ringing up the total, and you’re left confused. An array of things pass by you — A bottle of wine. A carton of eggs. A cake from the local bakers. A tractor, of all things. A bunch of ballpens. A bag of flour.
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